Custom Poller alerting issue

FormerMember

 I'm taking my first dive into this arena and am having some unexpected results.  I set up custom pollers yesterday to monitor the mail queue's on my spam firewalls.  The pollers are set for a raw value type with None as the type.  I set my trigger as follows:

Match all:

Status is greater than or equal to 250

Poller Name is equal to InMailQueue

AlertGroup is equal to SpamFilter

 

AlertGroup is a custom property I use to classify my devices for different alerts.  The problem is that this alert is triggering when the value is far less than 250.  For example I just got an email that the queue was at 4.  Looking at the custom poller status values in the web interface confirms this value.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Am I using the wrong value to match up with the greater than 250 since I'm using raw values instead of counters or something?

FormerMember

Here, I would use these instead.  I found there were 2 different sets of OID's to monitor, one that was a text value and one that was an integer.  Initially I was using the text value one and I think that was part of my problem.  I wasn't able to use the "rate" type of poller because the value it was getting back wasn't a number.  Using this set of pollers the values and alerts appear to be working better.

 Side note...I had my trigger messages screwed up so that was confusing me even more (I have to be more careful when I copy existing alerts).

 As far as how I found these, I used the Solarwinds Engineer's edition toolset's snmp tools to walk the avilable OID's for the values I was looking for.  Unfortunately I haven't found any other useful information really that can be found via snmp.  If I figure out anything more, cpu temp, etc, I'll post my findings here, probably in a new post though.