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  • For better or worse, we've chosen the route that wbrown mentioned and use custom properties. It basically boils down to: If VolumeWarningCustomProperty is not null If Used Space is greater than VolumeWarningCustomProperty then alert Else If Used Space is greater than 85% then alert We haven't seen any performance issues…
    in Better a few complicated rules or more simple rules (What is the best practice?) Comment by ouberlord October 2013
  • It's fairly simple to set up an alert based off of the results of a UnDP once you wrap your mind around it. In this use case, I made a UnDP to check the battery status of some of our APC UPS units. I named this UnDP "upsAdvBatteryReplaceIndicator", and it returns a single result. The trigger condition looks like this: Type…
    in Alert variable from UnDP result. Comment by ouberlord October 2013
  • Also Brett it is important to note that while SolarWinds does release MIB database updates fairly often (weekly?) the Orion software does not automatically update the database file and (currently) has no function to allow for it to do so. The file must be downloaded from your customer support portal and then placed in the…
    in How do I import a vendor provided MIB into orion Comment by ouberlord October 2013
  • I can think of a way, but I don't know if it would be the best. You could use SAM to run a script (vbscript, PowerShell, etc) via the Windows Script Monitor. In theory you could have a script break down each line and search for the time stamps, and limit it to a window of the last ten minutes. Then, you could have the…
    in Log File Monitoring Comment by ouberlord February 2014
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