Advanced Alerts instead of Basic

Question

I have recently upgrade to 8.0.2 and I am liking the Advanced Alerts options, especially the Advanced features (Do not trigger this alert until the trigger condition exists for 15 minutes).

Is there a way to setup some of the basic Alerts to also do this.  I would like to be able to setup alerts for "Low disk Space" and a couple of the other preconfigure alerts.  Or do I need to create these within the Advanced alerts.  If so then how - I do not see the option to monitor "volume statistics" within the advanced settings.

Also is there a way to test the advanced alerts.  when I go in to the advanced alerts option it only shows the basic alerts

thanks

Jeff

dhutchings · Answer

That sounds like an option that will cause much less hair loss.  Time to peruse more documentation.

BryanBecker · Answer

quote:Originally posted by dhutchings

Yes, it's exactly what I was worried about.  We've got hundreds of nodes, and I was hoping there would be a friendly checkbox system like in the basic reports rather than having to create a trigger entry for each server for each advanced alert I want to create.

Wow.  The advanced alerts have suddenly made themselves all but useless.

To further clarify:  If I want to have an alert on CPU >90% for 40 of 300 nodes, I have to keep handy a list of all nodes I want to monitor for, create a separate condition for each under an initial condition for CPU >90%?  All this so I can have the CPU alert only fire if a CPU is >90% for more than 5 minutes.  Why can there not be an easily selectable list of populated nodes?

I guess what I really want is a basic alert mechanism (CPU >90% for a handy, pre-populated checklist of applicable nodes - the ones I want I can just put a check-mark beside) that also contains the time threshold modification of the advanced alerts.  Is there any way that this can be done?

You could also assign a custom property to those servers and only alert servers matching that.

BB

dhutchings · Answer

Yes, it's exactly what I was worried about.  We've got hundreds of nodes, and I was hoping there would be a friendly checkbox system like in the basic reports rather than having to create a trigger entry for each server for each advanced alert I want to create.

Wow.  The advanced alerts have suddenly made themselves all but useless.

To further clarify:  If I want to have an alert on CPU >90% for 40 of 300 nodes, I have to keep handy a list of all nodes I want to monitor for, create a separate condition for each under an initial condition for CPU >90%?  All this so I can have the CPU alert only fire if a CPU is >90% for more than 5 minutes.  Why can there not be an easily selectable list of populated nodes?

I guess what I really want is a basic alert mechanism (CPU >90% for a handy, pre-populated checklist of applicable nodes - the ones I want I can just put a check-mark beside) that also contains the time threshold modification of the advanced alerts.  Is there any way that this can be done?