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Aside from our basic monitoring I have a team that wants to be notified only if a specific server runs out of disk space

We monitor most of the servers on our network with Solarwinds and the Server teams receives alerts. I have another team that wants me to create and email distribution group with their address and have Solarwinds send an alert ONLY when one specific server has low disk space. I found the server under Manage Nodes. I see where I ADD NEW ALERT, but where I can specify this ALERT only goes to a particular team and it is only triggered if the C or D drive becomes more than 80% full? thanks

  • A couple of quick answers, along with pointers to more info:

    1. If this is truly a one-off and it won't happen again for another group, then you should probably just clone your existing disk alert and change the parameters.
    2. It's NEVER just a one off and it WILL happen again.
    3. So go into the node manager and view volumes. Add a few custom properties
      1. email_team (text field)
      2. warn_thresh (integer field)
      3. alert_thresh (integer field)
    4. Ask your email admin to create the actual group account so that THEY can manage who gets the emails. Otherwise you will forever be stuck adding/removing people from that custom property in SolarWinds
    5. Find the C and D drive for the server in question, and add the group email into the "email_team" field
    6. Put 80 in the alert_thresh for both drives

    Now, create an alert with the following logic:

    IF email_Team is NOT blank

    AND disk Util % >= field alert_thresh

    that's your trigger.

    Set up your actions - which should include an email notification AND you can use the email_team variable in the "TO:" field of the email.

    That should get you started. Here's an episode of SolarWinds lab were we dig into some of the specifics of alert design.

    All About Alerts - SolarWinds Lab #42 - YouTube

  • Leon is 1000% right on this it will never be a one off. it will become the standard:)