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Generate alert on event

I would like to generate an alert on an event and have the alert emailed to me.

I noticed that one of my nodes sparked an alert on it's host details page when a "volume dissapeared". I would like to write an alert that will send an email based on that event.

I have looked in the alert manager but cannot find a way to trigger based on the event - can anybody advise if this is possible and how to do it?

Thanks

Paul

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smargh

Event triggers would be nice, but they don't seem to be possible at the moment unless you set up a trigger on the SQL database itself, which would also need to be the thing which actually sends the alert. It's easy with T-SQL though.

See this image for the alert I've set up for this exact problem - it does work fine:

I use this alert text; the variable could do with being a bit different though:

Volume: ${FullName}

Orion Status: ${Status}

Monitoring of disk space for this volume has probably stopped.

This is normally a problem with Solarwinds as opposed to an issue with the server or volume itself.

In some cases this alert can be triggered by renaming or removing a volume.

If this volume is on a SAN, it may need to be removed & re-added to Solarwinds due to the SNMP IDs changing.

This alert will repeat every 60 minutes while there is a problem with the volume. If the volume is removed and re-added to Solarwinds, then a "recovery" email will likely NOT be sent, because the original volume will no longer exist.

cringer

Thank you - I will try this and see if it works for me

Thanks

Paul

MarieB

Hi Paul--

Another thing to try is to watch our very informative and short alert tutorials. You can find them and other product tutorials at:

http://www.solarwinds.com/support/tutorials.aspx

HTH,

Questionario

that solution would probably fire also if the server would not be reachable via snmp anymore for a bit, right?

smargh

that solution would probably fire also if the server would not be reachable via snmp anymore for a bit, right?

You're correct - I've had this alert trigger when SNMP stops responding, which can be a sign of a much bigger problem - for example, if a dodgy GPO has been rolled out which enables the firewall on every computer, or a server or device changes to DHCP etc.

Obviously the condition with $:\$ in it will need to be changed for *nix systems & linux-based appliances etc.

You can do the same for "unknown" interfaces, but I often see interfaces appear as "unknown" when they've never actually had the network cable plugged in to a spare NIC, so that's not as useful.

Questionario

anyhow, a solution to alert on events would be cool!