title: Returning strings from a PRTG custom sensor
body: <p>I'm trying to develop a custom VBScript sensor for the PRTG monitoring tool and the interface seems fairly simple, returning just a 32-bit integral value and a status string such as with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>WScript.echo "0:January 23, 2015"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, only the integer appears on the front screen, you have to go into the sensor detail screen itself to get the descriptive text.</p>
  
  <p>Now I think you <em>can</em> generate textual data to be displayed as the result (rather than the descriptive text) since the <code>SSL security check</code> sensor displays <code>Only Strong Protocols Possible</code>:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/i6Nlf.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I tried returning the date as an integer along the lines of <code>20150123</code> but that has two problems:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>It displays it "nicely" so you get 20,150,123 which looks nothing <em>like</em> a date; and</li>
  <li>Being an integer, it maintains minima, maxima, averages and alarm levels, which seems a little silly given it'll <em>always</em> be above twenty million (assuming it uses current dates).</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>So, my question is: how do you create and code up a custom sensor that can return a string rather than just an integer, float or counter, which seem to be the only three options available?</p>