Custom Property Automated Rules

One could also use alerts.

Trigger Condition:

All child conditions must be satisfied (AND)

Node - Node Name - contains - JCMO -

Nodes Custom Properties - Address1 - is empty

Trigger Actions:

1. Change 'Address1' property to '100 W High St'

2. Change 'AddressCity' property to 'Jefferson City'

Et al.

This could be used in conjunction with dynamic groups.

Good catch!

I love the thought of managing dynamic custom Properties with alerts. I first heard about this in the advanced alerting class that is available in the Solarwinds Portal.

what do you have to reset condition as? I have mine set to Reset this alert when trigger condition is no longer true (Recommended).

And that acknowledge the alert? I have that set but the alert just sits unacknowledged.

I would reset the Alert immediately (in this case after 10 seconds which is the lowest value) or when your custom Property field contains the right value (or "is not empty").

There is no need having the alert sitting there.

Shouldn't that automatically be done when the reset is set to "Reset this alert when trigger condition is no longer true (Recommended)"?

It depends how you have set your trigger condition. when you only trigger on the node name this stays the same.

It depends how you have set your trigger condition. when you only trigger on the node name this stays the same.

HerrDoktor​ is correct, PeterLyttle. Let's break it down just a bit.

If you alert is set up like this:

Trigger Condition:

All child conditions must be satisfied (AND)

Node - Node Name - contains - JCMO -

Trigger Actions:

1. Change 'Address1' property to '100 W High St'

2. Change 'AddressCity' property to 'Jefferson City'

What will happen is that when the alert runs, it will trigger off of the name. The actions then happen. Since the trigger condition hasn't changed, the alert will not reset. Each time the alert runs, it will trigger and overwrite these properties.

If you add a condition like so:

Trigger Condition:

All child conditions must be satisfied (AND)

Node - Node Name - contains - JCMO -

Nodes Custom Properties - Address1 - is empty

Trigger Actions:

1. Change 'Address1' property to '100 W High St'

2. Change 'AddressCity' property to 'Jefferson City'

The alert will trigger only if the node name has JCMO in it and the address is blank. Once triggered, the actions populate the address fields. This then cause the trigger condition to no longer be true, resetting the alert. The next time the alert runs, it will now skip this node as the address1 field will no longer be empty.

Yea that's the way I have it -

Trigger Condition

Node - Node Name - contains - LON

Node Custom Properties - Site - is empty

Meaning that it should reset after the trigger action populates the Site custom property.  I've been seeing a few strange things with names in NPM12 and already have a support case open.

We've worked out what was happening with the help of support.

Basically as the Site is empty (NULL I guess) we had tweaked the query to be NOT EQUAL TO LON rather than the IS EMPTY

Adding an OR condition block so the trigger read -

Node - Node Name - Contains - LON

AND

(Node Custom Properties - Site - IS EMPTY OR Node Custom Properties - Site - NOT EQUAL to LON)

This sorted it and also sorted out the reset trigger!