Advanced Alert Variable help

Question

I've setup an Advanced Alert to alert me when a servers' disk space is low based on 95% (roughly) and that the volume has less than 2gb (I think anyway).  Here's what my alert looks like:

Trigger the alert when ALL of the following apply:

Vendor is equal to Windows

field Volume Percent Used is greater than or equal to value 95.0475

field Volume Space Available is less than or equal to 2000 (assuming it's measure in KB??)

My alert message looks like this:

Subject line says :[URGENT] ${NodeName}'s disk space is low ----- This comes out fine in the e-mail, the name of the server is included.

The body of the message says: ${FullName} volume is at ${VolumePercentUsed}.  Total disk capacity is ${VolumeSize)

However, when I get the e-mail, I get that exact text in my message, I don't get the values.  I'm hoping to include in the message what the available space is but I have to get past this first.  Anyone with any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?  I'm running 8.0.2 (upgraded this morning) and have applied the Alerting patch.

Oh yeah, what's with the double spacing on this page when I hit enter??

jtimes · Answer

There seems to be allot of issues with Advanced Alerts for anything other than Nodes, looks like these are being addressed in v8.1, but interface advanced alerts are not specifically mentioned in the v8.1 overview.

Have you tried switching tables to the VolumeUsage table yet?

try it both ways (A)"straight column" and if that still doesn't work (B) put the table name and period column name

(A)     ${PercentDiskUsed}

(B)     ${VolumeUsage.PercentDiskUsed}

NodeID 
VolumeID 
DateTime 
DiskSize 
AvgDiskUsed 
MinDiskUsed 
MaxDiskUsed 
PercentDiskUsed 
AllocationFailures
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davjon · Answer

Yeah, I had tried that before, from someone else's post that I ran across.  This is the output from a triggered alert after making that change:

${Volumes.FullName} volume is at ${Volumes.VolumePercentUsed}. Total disk capacity is ${Volumes.VolumeSize} and free space is ${Volumes.VolumeSpaceAvailable}

jtimes · Answer

You have to put the table names and a period then colum (exactly like its defined in the table)

The body of the message: ${Volumes.FullName} volume is at ${Volumes.VolumePercentUsed}.  Total disk capacity is ${Volumes.VolumeSize}

Here are the colums in the Volumes table:

NodeID
VolumeID
LastSync
VolumeIndex
Caption
PollInterval
StatCollection
RediscoveryInterval
VolumeDescription
VolumeType
VolumeTypeIcon
VolumePercentUsed
VolumeSpaceUsed
VolumeSpaceAvailable
VolumeSize
Status
StatusLED
VolumeResponding
VolumeAllocationFailuresThisHour
VolumeAllocationFailuresToday
NextPoll
NextRediscovery
FullName

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