I am trying to set up monitor alerts for a specific server in environment. For some reason the condition is not met so the trigger is not send out. Can someone know tell me what it is missing in the trigger condition?
Have you tried instead of using "Avaliable space" , try instead "Percentage used". Just a thought. Also, did you know you could access the SWIS query tool page by using this address: http://<SolarWinds server IP>/Orion/admin/swis.aspx . By clicking the little down arrow on the yellow bar in the trigger conditions should give you the avaliablity to show swql . When you do this it shows the query it's sending to SWIS to verify if the trigger is met. And you can throw that query in the swis query tool and see if it gives a response or not. (Note: this is more of just a reference tool as some times it may not give you proper responses depending how you have your conditions set. In other words if it doesn't work here it doesn't mean it won't work on the alert.)
Just a few things I normally use when trying to figure out trigger conditions. Sometimes they seem sound but are not quite there yet and a little more tweaking and trial and error is required to get it just right! I hope this helps.
Try changing volumetype to contains fixed, some systems report as "fixed disk" others are "fixeddisk" maybe also set the node name to contains as well
Just to confirm:
you want to alert when any of the drives (fixed) on noias-p9910-v are under 107 gig?
And you've confirmed the node name in SolarWinds, and you've confirmed the current volume size is under that?
One thing I do to test is just reverse the logic - make it "greater than" rather than "less than" and set the threshold low. Then you know it's going to trigger.
Also remember that you have to wait for the polling cycle to complete, which (if memory serves) is 10 min by default for volumes (check me on that, I'm working from memory).
*15 min default
Good one! Didn't think of that.
I swear to Dog that default changes every other version.
Changing from "avaiable space" to "percentage used" did the trick.
Also, the "show swql ' tool was very useful.
Thank you so much.
