I am trying to create an alert if we receive a certain syslog event but can't seem to figure out how to craft such a thing in the web based alert writer.
Anyone?
Why not just create a rule to send an email for the specific Syslog message? Here's a good read:
Tips and Tricks for Managing Traps and Syslog in Orion NPM
Geez, forgot all about this feature..... that works, I appreciate it.
Only using custom SQL.
this idea:
will hopefully merge syslog and traps into one alerting engine which will be good.
I did not see these getting integrated into new betas so I wrote syslog and trap alerts in NPM tied to npm node to get alerts through main engine...see content here
I would love to see a better answer for this. The "Correct Answer" poses a question: Why not just create a rule to send an email for the specific Syslog message?
Here are three answers to the question:
1. E-Mail is not an ideal solution for alerts, and certainly not the only method that should be available, nor so I want to have to write custom scripts to use the API to trigger an alert in a 3rd party tool
2. I would like to manage all my alerts from a single place such as the webconsole
3. I don't want to have to give my junior engineers the ability to RDP to my orion server to adjust alerts
As it stands I will probably write a custom script to send an alert to a 3rd party tool using their API.
Is there anything on the roadmap to provide better support for syslog and traps?
