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Building alert triggers off of custom properties

Hello,

We have multiple departments what want to have servers monitored. But different departments want different alerting thresholds. How do I get an alert to let me use a customer property as an alerting threshold, instead of using a set value?

Example: CPU load % -

I have a custom property called CPULoadMaxPercent

I set that at 85 for a specific server, when I try to set up a Complex condition and set the "field CPU Load is greater than CPULoadMaxPercent" It will set the CPU Load back to *

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sedmo

This may be happening because the data types of the two fields are not the same. The CPU Load field is an integer so your custom property field (CPULoadMaxPercent) must be integer also.

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ecklerwr1

This may or may not help as I've been trying to improve in this area. Have you looked at http://www.solarwinds.com/support/Orion/docs/UnderstandingOrionAdvancedAlerts.pdf

from page 11 on has helped me quite a bit.

sedmo

This may be happening because the data types of the two fields are not the same. The CPU Load field is an integer so your custom property field (CPULoadMaxPercent) must be integer also.

hjarriell

That was the issue, thanx.