Volume labels showing same serial number

doug.evans

I'm trying to write a volume alert, however, a few of these volumes are reporting the same serial number. This causes the alert to only trigger on 1 volume when there should be 3 volumes triggering.

Since I have put these volumes into a custom property, and I'm alerting on Volumes, is there another criteria I can add to make this work? When I run this through report writer it appears to show all of the volumes regardless of their label.

mesverrum

It's not corruption, it's normal.  The alert preview does a select distinct type thing and only shows you unique names.  It is super obvious when looking at application alerts because most instances of an application template will have the exact same name so the preview says only 1 will trigger, in reality you get alerted by 50. Don't fear, you will get alerted on each unique instance of that name separately.