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High volume percentage used settings with different limits

I am new to the Solarwinds configuration settings. Currently in our environment we have alerts on the High Volume percentage used set where anything 84% - 94% used is a warning, and anything above 95% is critical. The issue is this is set for all nodes across the board, and on some of those devices 95% isn't critical. Example would be the filesystems on our UNIX machines that are being used by Oracle. The DBA's will use all available space on the filesystem so 100% used on those filesystems is acceptable. However because of the alert settings being applied across the board it alerts critical all day long. Same would hold true on some of our Windows servers. A few of them are at 95% used static - never changes. Not a critical instance for these machines. However the alerts are going off.

Basically - what do I need to do to specify different acceptable levels of High Volume based on the device/Filesystem?

Any guidance would be appreciated

Scott

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borgan

This is an excellent use case for Custom Properties. Have you investigated them yet?

Basically, you can use the Custom Property editor to create a property to assign to nodes or interfaces that you want to treat as a group. In your case, you would create a Yes/No property (named whatever you wish) that would be assigned to all UNIX file servers. In the alert, you would then add a simple condition that makes the alert apply to all nodes EQUAL TO False for that custom property (or NOT EQUAL TO True). You would apply the desired thresholds to those nodes as you described above. It is possible to set trigger conditions for the UNIX server thresholds in the same alert, but I would create a separate alert for that to keep it simple. In that alert, you would set the custom property to "EQUAL TO True" and define the appropriate thresholds.\

I hope that helps. Let us know if you need clarification.

On another note, contact me via email if you would be interested in additional, formal training on SolarWinds applications.

scott30p

Thank you for the suggestion...No I have not looked at the Custom properties? Where do I find them?

scott30p

Disregard - I found it. I will see if this helps with my situation.

Thank you again.

scott30p

I do need some clarification. I have created the group, and selected the applicable nodes. I do not see where I add the alert, edit the alert for these nodes. Do you mind if I call you?

Scott