advanced alert - where nodename "does not contain" etc...

FormerMember

hi all,

is there any way to use in advanced alerting, the parameter of "interface fullname "does not contain" a string of chars?  i can see "contains" whcih is OK, but is the reverse of what i want...

i want to monitor all of my BRI interfaces for being UP, but do not want to get alerts from the INTERFACE DOWN alerts for them as they are in a good state when they are DOWN.

alert structure woudl be:

custom-property1 is equal to toilet
interface status is equal to down
interface fullname does not contain bri

what do you think?  don't think you can do it now, but will you be able to any time soon?

lhorstma

You just want a "does not contain" right? That's an easy one, just add a none condition group:

Trigger Alert when all of the following apply
..custom-property1 is equal to toilet
..interface status is equal to down
..Trigger Alert when none of the following apply
....interface fullname contains bri

Or if you want to exclude a list of possible things you need one extra, an any condition group under the none:

Trigger Alert when all of the following applY
..custom-property1 is equal to toilet
..interface status is equal to down
..Trigger Alert when none of the following apply
....Trigger Alert when any of the following apply
......interface fullname contains bri
......other condition here

Think of it this way, the none condition group is your NOT, the all condition group is your AND, and your any condition group is your OR.

To the devs:

One future option I would like to see with the advanced alerts is an "advanced view" for forming more standard conditional statements (rather than what I guess they consider is more human readable), kind of like how Report Writer has the advanced SQL option which lets you just put in whatever SQL you want. I want to use my ANDs ORs and NOTs like I'm used to in other applications.