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"does not contain" and others needed in Alert Conditions

I really need a "does not contain" conditional when creating alerts. For instance, to exclude C: drives from a disk space alert by doing "volume description does not contain C:". I think every conditional should have a negative version, for instance "does not start with". "Ends with" and "Does not End with" would also be nice.

Why not just allow custom regexes or SQL statements in alerts while we're at it?

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qle

Why not just allow custom regexes or SQL statements in alerts while we're at it?

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe custom SQL statements are now possible for trigger conditions in NPM 10.1.

mcbridea

That is correct

chinson

Gotcha. I still think my other suggestions are good though, it'd be alot easier than writing SQL by hand.

lhorstma

While I agree that it would be nice to have this, and especially for anyone newer to the advanced alerts system, I wanted to mention that you can already do this with just one extra step. Add a new condition group and mark it as "Trigger Alert when NONE of the following apply", then create a new simple condition under that which says" Volume Description CONTAINS C:". If you want to do multiple conditions add a condition group for "Trigger Alert when ANY of the following apply" in between the NONE condition group and the simple condition. I do this on a ton of alerts.

I like the "Ends with" also, which I think would be useful.