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Last boot alert variable

Does the "last boot" alert variable apply to servers and network devices or just network devices? I was trying to make an alert that would kick off whenever something was rebooted so I put in an alert "last boot has changed".

Any ideas?

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Donald_Francis

SW staffers any idea?

Donald_Francis

Why is it so hard to get an answer on this support?

MarieB

Hi Donald--

I am researching your question now and will get back to you as soon as I can.

Marie

PetrKnyttl

Device that was rebooted needs to be Rediscovered before the alert si fired. You can modify the default Rediscovery interval in 'Admin>Polling Settings page' from 30 minutes to lower value.

Petr

jbaulsir

That's not true, We rediscover at a 30 minute interval but get reboot Alerts almost immediately.

Karlo.Zatylny

Hi,

Last boot is populated by the SysUpTime OID and a calculation.

http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Translate&objectInput=sysUpTime

The value in that field changes when we calculate that a reboot has happened. This OID is polled every cycle as reboots are important pieces of information.

Any device that suuports this OID can give you this information. Many devices and servers populate this OID, although some might not. The Windows servers in my test environment all populate this OID.

SELECT NodeID, IP_Address, Caption, LastBoot, SystemUpTime, ObjectSubType
FROM Nodes

This statement will show you all your devices and you can see which ones are populating this value. Add:

WHERE LastBoot IS NULL

to the above statement and you will be able to see which of your Nodes are not populating this item. Some of these might be your ICMP only nodes.

Your alert that you describe should work although you may want to add the stipulation that Unmanaged is FALSE, so that while you are working on your devices in an unmanaged state, you don't get these alerts.

Here is a helpful link on triggering alerts on LastBoot:

http://www.solarwinds.com/NetPerfMon/SolarWinds/OrionAdministratorGuide.1.153.htm

Please let me know if this answers your question.

Thanks

Donald_Francis

For some reason then I am not getting these alerts from servers at all.

The only thing I have the trigger on:

"Last Boot has changed"

What am I missing here?

The rest of the alert is setup like the hundred others we have.

Donald_Francis

It must be my alert. I tried using the canned one and it works fine. I will just delete it and recreate it.

Thanks for the help.

FormerMember

Try adding "Vendor Equals Windows"

stripet

I am having a problem where the Advanced Alert called"Alert me when a node Lastboot changes" does not work. Why is it not detecting when the Last Boot changed? The only trigger condition is "Last Boot has changed" and when Last Boot field changes on nodes, the Trigger Actions do NOT run.

Here is our versions:

Orion Platform 2014.2.1, SAM 6.1.1, QoE 1.0, NCM 7.3.1, NPM 11.0.1, NTA 4.0.3, IVIM 1.10.0, VNQM 4.2

cahunt

You are missing Absolutely nothing!!!

Last Boot Has Changed - IS ALL YOU NEED! - I further Exclude, certain community strings for devices (UPS) that I dont care about reboots - since most of theirs is just the NIC going offline.

stripet

I figured out my issue was that I did not realize there was a Suppress Condition in place which was preventing the alert from triggering. I deleted the suppress condition and now it is working.

krishnamishra0786

Hi,

I have concerned in "Last boot has changed". it is not working for ESXI node, where team is we did not reboot any node, but we are getting the node reboot alert, could you please suggest, how we can setup an alert for esxi node reboot.

Thanks