Alerts - select specific return variable from component monitor

I have a (actually many) component monitor with multiple outputs (I've been calling them "return variables" - not positive about the terminology).

Let's say I have 3 outputs, with Message and Statistic values:

- OutputValue1

- OutputValue2

- OutputValue3

I have a threshold set on OutputValue2. No other output value has a threshold set.

I've configured an alert for the threshold. The alert body returns the Message and Statistic value that generated the alert.

However... the value returned does not come from OutputValue2. It comes from OutputValue1 or even OutputValue3.

The Message and Statistic values returned in the alert do not necessarily come from the value on which a threshold is set. In fact, the Message and Statistic value returned in the alert appears to be somewhat random (no specific order).

Does anyone know how to specify a particular output value Message/Statistic in Solarwinds alerts?

Thanks.

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fop

Hi Robert,

I have Veeam monitors running for failed jobs etc. The powershell script that queries output of the Get-VBRJob cmdlet is in the application as 'Job status 1' and returns the job name and result in this format:

Message.Job_Name: Daily VM Backup New[0]
Statistic.Job_Name: 0

(0 is success in this instance)

In the alert It's set as an AND for:

Application: Application Name (Component Alerting Properties) equals '<name of Veeam monitor>'
Component: Component Name (Component Alerting Properties) equals 'job status 1'
Component: Status equals 'critical'

Because the status monitor returns the name of the backup job I can then add that to the alert email so we know which job failed.

Cheers

Adrian

adam.beedell

Fop's outlined a method that's basically
- Make a macro for each multivaluestatistic/massage you need
This method works just fine in the event that things can be pretty static

There's also

- Select all the multivalue stuff, select top 1, concat together

- Select all multivalue stuff, form a table with FOR XML PATH and a SQL macro

these are in order of increasing difficulty

fop

I'm really going to have to change my name. I only registered quickly while a colleague was on holiday - this was for App Gateway API stuff. I was going to scarper when he came back, but enjoyed having my programming head back on so much I decided to get stuck in

adam.beedell

Haha we may have interacted in one of those app gateway threads, i've definitely poked my head in and done some azure integration coding elsewhere

Keep the name it's great!