I started what I thought we be a simple alert. While I have a couple of hundred interfaces, I am concerned about utilization on about 25 of them. I created the following alert, with errors. Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Problems: 1. The alert notifies on interfaces that I thought I have explicitly denied. 2. The alert seems to run any time of day. Name of alert: High Receive Percent Utilization Description of alert: Type of Property to monitor Interface Enabled(On/Off): ON Evaluation Frequency of alert: Every 15 seconds Severity of alert: Critical Alert Custom Properties: (0) No Alert Custom Properties defined Alert owner (user who created this alert): me Alert Limitation Category No Limitation Trigger Condition: Edit Alert on all objects where: All child conditions must be satisfied (AND) Interface - Instance of Interface - is - swis:// All child conditions must be satisfied (AND) Interface - Instance of Interface - is not - swis: The actual trigger condition: Interface - Received Percent Utilization - is greater than - 85 Reset Condition: Edit Interface - Received Percent Utilization - is less than - 30 Time of Day schedule: Enabled: Daily - From 7:30 AM To 5:30 PM every business day(Mon-Fri) Disabled: Trigger Action: Escalation Level 1 1. Alert for high WAN utilization Reset Action: Edit No reset action specified

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Trouble with High receive percent utilization alert

I started what I thought we be a simple alert. While I have a couple of hundred interfaces, I am concerned about utilization on about 25 of them. I created the following alert, with errors. Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Problems:

1. The alert notifies on interfaces that I thought I have explicitly denied.

2. The alert seems to run any time of day.

Name of alert:

High Receive Percent Utilization

Description of alert:

Type of Property to monitor

Interface

Enabled(On/Off): ON

Evaluation Frequency of alert:

Every 15 seconds

Severity of alert:

Critical

Alert Custom Properties: (0)

No Alert Custom Properties defined

Alert owner (user who created this alert):

Alert Limitation Category

No Limitation

Trigger Condition:

Edit

Alert on all objects where:

All child conditions must be satisfied (AND)

Interface - Instance of Interface - is - swis://<all of the interfaces I want to monitor>

All child conditions must be satisfied (AND)

Interface - Instance of Interface - is not - swis:<all of the interfaces I do NOT want to monitor - added this because I was getting more than the interfaces I selected>

The actual trigger condition:

Interface - Received Percent Utilization - is greater than - 85

Reset Condition:

Edit

Interface - Received Percent Utilization - is less than - 30

Time of Day schedule:

Enabled:

Daily - From 7:30 AM To 5:30 PM every business day(Mon-Fri)

Disabled:

Trigger Action:

Escalation Level 1

1. Alert for high WAN utilization

Reset Action:

Edit

No reset action specified

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superfly

Can you please post up a screen shot of your Trigger Condition?

ccorbin123

I had a bunch of alerts that didn't clear, so I think a lot of the false positives were alerts that were just hanging out. It may have been more of an issue with my cleanup than anything else. Does the above look reasonable?

pratikmehta003

If you don't provide one more condition and only have interface instance is "your selected interfaces". Did u try this?

This would alert only on interface u require.

For alert running any time of day: You can make the changes in time tab while configuring the alert. If u need only during your business hours then you can specify that timings.