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Disk Volume Alert Using Variables

I am trying to setup a Disk Volume Alert and can not find a trigger. I also want to add variables in the alert for the Volume info but I am not able to find any variables for Volumes. Is there an example on setting up volume alerts?

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mark_wiggans

The following are valid volume variables.

Volume Variable	Description
${Caption}	User friendly volume name
${FullName}	User friendly volume name including captions of parent node and interface
${LastSync}	Time and date volume last synchronized in database and memory models
${NextPoll}	Day, date and time of next scheduled volume polling
${NextRediscovery}	Scheduled time of next volume rediscovery
${NodeID}	Internal unique identifier of parent node
${PollInterval}	Volume status polling interval, in seconds
${RediscoveryInterval}	Volume rediscovery interval, in minutes
${StatCollection}	Statistics collection frequency, in minutes
${Status}	Numerical volume status: (0=”Unknown”, 1=”Up”, 2=”Shutdown”, 3=”Testing”)
${StatusLED}	Filename of volume status icon
${VolumeAllocationFailuresThisHour}	Number of volume allocation errors for this volume in last hour
${VolumeAllocationFailuresToday}	Number of volume allocation errors for this volume in current day
${VolumeDescription}	User friendly volume description
${VolumeID}	Internal unique identifier of volume
${VolumeIndex}	Unique index of this volume within the parent node
${VolumePercentUsed}	Percentage of volume currently in use
${VolumeResponding}	(Y) = volume is currently responding to SNMP queries
${VolumeSize}	Size of volume, in bytes
${VolumeSpaceAvailable}	Total space available on volume, in bytes
${VolumeSpaceUsed}	Total space used on volume, in bytes
${VolumeType}	Volume type, as reported by hrStorageType OID (Removable Disk/Fixed Disk/Compact Disc/Virtual Memory/RAM/etc)
${VolumeTypeIcon}	Filename of icon for volume type

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mark_wiggans

The following are valid volume variables.

Volume Variable	Description
${Caption}	User friendly volume name
${FullName}	User friendly volume name including captions of parent node and interface
${LastSync}	Time and date volume last synchronized in database and memory models
${NextPoll}	Day, date and time of next scheduled volume polling
${NextRediscovery}	Scheduled time of next volume rediscovery
${NodeID}	Internal unique identifier of parent node
${PollInterval}	Volume status polling interval, in seconds
${RediscoveryInterval}	Volume rediscovery interval, in minutes
${StatCollection}	Statistics collection frequency, in minutes
${Status}	Numerical volume status: (0=”Unknown”, 1=”Up”, 2=”Shutdown”, 3=”Testing”)
${StatusLED}	Filename of volume status icon
${VolumeAllocationFailuresThisHour}	Number of volume allocation errors for this volume in last hour
${VolumeAllocationFailuresToday}	Number of volume allocation errors for this volume in current day
${VolumeDescription}	User friendly volume description
${VolumeID}	Internal unique identifier of volume
${VolumeIndex}	Unique index of this volume within the parent node
${VolumePercentUsed}	Percentage of volume currently in use
${VolumeResponding}	(Y) = volume is currently responding to SNMP queries
${VolumeSize}	Size of volume, in bytes
${VolumeSpaceAvailable}	Total space available on volume, in bytes
${VolumeSpaceUsed}	Total space used on volume, in bytes
${VolumeType}	Volume type, as reported by hrStorageType OID (Removable Disk/Fixed Disk/Compact Disc/Virtual Memory/RAM/etc)
${VolumeTypeIcon}	Filename of icon for volume type

seudo2k

I setup an alert but I am not able to get it to trigger.

Trigger Type: Volume

Volume % Used is > or = to 10

Node Name is = to Server name.

I have tried to do a test alert and lowered this alert to 10% and it will not trigger. Is there something I am missing with Volume alerts?

profzoom1

This is what I have for my Volumes to trigger an alert

Volume type = fixed disk ---> so that I don't get memory or other things classified as Volume to trigger this I wish SW would fix this so you didn't have to have this step.

Volume percent used it greater than or equal to 90

see if that will works

my alert email then is

subject Alert:Volume on ${NodeName} is over 90%

Body Alert: Percent Space Used of ${FullName} is now ${VolumePercentUsed}

The resets are then lower then 90

profzoom1

I am no longer seeing Volume Type as a choice in filtering volumes did this get removed in an upgrade? I am now seeing all Volumes, Physical Memory being reported as a volume and not able to filter the physical memory from my alerts or Volume reports.

Not sure what happened?

keduck

I took mine in a two fold step:

The problem: each analyst wanted each of their hard drives to monitored at a different threshold. I was tired of setting up individual thresholds in the Advance Alerts for each of the hundreds of servers and Disk volumes I was monitoring; it got busy and confusing real fast.

The solution:

STEP 1:

Within the SolarWinds Custom Property Editor for Volumes, I created three custom fields: "Percentage_Threshold_LEVEL1", "Percentage_Threshold_LEVEL2", and "Percentage_Threshold_LEVEL3." For each Disk Volume, I put a value of what I wanted the highest threshold would be: LEVEL1 would be for a Warning alarm, LEVEL2 would be for the Critical alarm. So, some servers have a 90 for LEVEL1, where others have 95, and so forth.

STEP 2:

I then went to my Advanced Alerts and put the following:

Name of Alert: (Disk Utilization) (WARNING)

Under the Trigger Condition Tab:

Type of Property to Monitor: Volume

Trigger Alert when all of the following apply:

Node Status is not equal to UnManaged

Node Status is not equal to Down

VolumeType is equal to Fixed Disk

field Volume Percent Used is greater than or equal to field Percentage_Threshold_LEVEL1 (For the Critical alert, just substitute LEVEL1 with LEVEL2.)

Next, the message that is being sent out has the following variables:

SUBJECT: ***PROBLEM ALERT*** - DISK: ${NodeName} - ${Caption} is at ${VolumePercentUsed} % full.

MESSAGE:

Node Name: ${NodeName}

Node Type: ${Node.Type}

Status: ${Status}

Comment: ${Node.Comments}

${Caption}

Total Size: ${VolumeSize}

Used: ${VolumeSpaceUsed}

Free: ${VolumeSpaceAvailable}

Percentage Used: ${VolumePercentUsed} %

Reference

Alert Name: ${AlertName}