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SAM CPU Alert

Hello everyone,

Quick question in regards to the built in CPU alert for SAM: "High CPU Utilization with Top 10 Processes".

It's working fine in my initial tests, however the formatting of the table seems off, especially for the "System" row (see below). I'm using the ${N=Alerting;M=Notes} variable and using "Plain Text" in the alert e-mail. Has anyone else had experience with this?

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mesverrum

Yeah nothing you can really do about the formatting when using that Out of the box method, there are other more elaborate schemes to poll for process utilization that you can find in the content exchange area, there a really good one using powershell to list them that I prefer for several reasons, not least of which is that you can squeeze a bit more structure format from it.

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jeilers

I'm not sure if there is anyway to fix this but yes the spacing on mine in my emails comes out pretty ugly most of the time as well.

mesverrum

jdwinns

Mind pointing me in the right direction? I searched but didn't really find anything related.

I did come across https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/59187 "The Ultimate CPU Alert". While it's much more elaborate than the out of the box alert, the results are the same, table formatting is still off and it's driving my OCD crazy. Thanks!

mesverrum

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