Business Hours or special hours option for Alerts

Hi, there's an option to take business hours into consideration.

1. simpler solution

- on Criteria tab, "Base Alert On" pane use this xpath: "hours-from-dateTime(/virtualMachine/perfDate)"

- on Criteria tab, "Triggers On" set a time range

2. example of more complex option (setting of working hours 11:20 to 11:40)

- on Criteria tab, "Base Alert On" pane use this xpath: "if((substring(substring-after(/virtualMachine/perfDate,"T"),1,5) >= "11:20") and (substring(substring-after(/virtualMachine/perfDate,"T"),1,5) <= "11:40")) then 1 else 0"

- on Criteria tab, "Triggers On" set Greater Than 0

Note 1: replace the underlined virtualMachine text with hostServer, datastore, cluster or applicationService depending on Item Type of the alert

Note 2: evaluation of such alert may be longer than usual, especially for users having bigger environment

Note 3: it's just a hint, exact settings depend on definition of alerts etc.

This functionality is also available by leveraging the VMAN 6.1 integration with NPM/SAM and using the Advanced Alert Manager's "Time of Day" fields.

This functionality is also available by leveraging the VMAN 6.1 integration with NPM/SAM and using the Advanced Alert Manager's "Time of Day" fields.