Configuring advanced alerts based on custom poller

Question

Hello Everyone,

I am new here and have a question for all of you.  I am running NPM v9 and I am trying to setup some alerts based off of some custom pollers. What I would like to do is get an alert when my UPS battery capacity is less then 50%.  I have a custom poller that provides present percentage of battery capacity but I am not able to figure out how to create the advanced alert.  Below is what I think it should look like.

Trigger Alert when all of the following apply

batterycapacity is <= 50%

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Chuck

cskowronek · Answer

Yann,

I created the alert and now I will be setting up the test enviroment to make sure that it works but what you provided looks great.

Thank you very much for the speedy response!!

Chuck

Yann · Answer

Chuck,

You will have to create an advanced alert to trigger an alert based on a Universal Device Poller.

* Start > All Programs > Solarwinds Orion > Advanced Alert Manager

* Click on Configure Alerts

* Click on new to configure a new alert.

* Type a name for your new alert.

* Select the Trigger Condition tab.

* For the type of property to monitor select Custom Node Poller or Custom Interface Poller. this will filter the condition options you will be allowed to use.

* Add two simple conditions by clicking on the three dots.

First condition will be * Poller Name is equal to "Poller Name to select with the drop down button"

Poller name can be selected under Custom Node Pollers > Poller Name

Second condition will be * Poller Status is equal/greater/less/etc. than "Value"

Poller Status can be selected under Custom Node Pollers > Status.

Once Selected this you can setup any alert actions you need by configuring the Trigger Actions tab.

Let us know if it works.

Yann