Extend command force value to be numeric

Hi,

Pardon my noobness - this is my first attempt to use 'extend'

I am running on a windows xp platform - the version that shows in the 
header is 5.2.1.2 (I downloaded v5.7somthing)

What I am attempting to do is read 3 numeric values from a file and expose 
them at the nsExtendResult table.

I have added the following line to snmpd.conf file:

extend typefile3 cscript c:\str2num.vbs c:\drives.txt

ignore the drives.txt name - it has nothing to do with the type of data 
I'm looking at, it was just a handy file for testing.

Everything thus far works perfectly. I can 'get' the values from the 
table, and I can see them when I walk the table from my NI observer NMS.

However - the values wind up in a variable-type Octet String and I need 
them to be in a numeric type because Observer doesn't allow string types 
to be used in it's formula expressions and has no text manipulation 
functions.


the str2num.vbs script is just a simple script that reads each value from 
the file, and writes it to the display. Suspecting that the way I output 
the data could affect what variable-type it wound up as in the table, I 
have tried using wscript.echo, and wscript.StdOut.WriteLine Int(strLine) 
to output the data. I initially tried just typing the file and grabbing 
the values that way.

All resulted in the data being interpreted as string data.

Is there anyway to force this to be numeric data?

Is there some other approach I should be using? I want to keep it as 
simple as possible  because it is a one-off type project.

Thanks for any help you can give!

k
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