alerting on a custom poller

Question

Hi All,

I have a custom poller set up on an OID to monitor my environment monitor. That bits great and I can see the temperature of my server roon in orion. However, now I would like to set up an alert if it gets above a certain temp. i have gone into advanced alerts andam having problems setting up the trigger.

At the moment it looks like this:-

can someone help out as I really have no idea what i am doing!!. I am not sure I should be looking at the numeric status and not sure what variables to use.

thanks,

paul

Yann · Accepted Answer

Hi Paul,

Here is how I usually setup advanced alerts for UnDP/Custom Pollers;

Start > All Programs > Solarwinds Orion > Advanced Alert Manager
Click on Configure Alerts
Click on new to configure a new alert.
Type a name for your new alert.
Select the Trigger Condition tab.
For the type of property to monitor select Custom Node Poller or Custom Interface Poller. this will filter the condition options you will be allowed to use.
Add two simple conditions by clicking on the three dots.

First condition will be

Poller Name is equal to "Poller Name to select with the drop down button"

Poller name can be selected under Custom Node Pollers > Poller Name

Second condition will be

Poller Status is equal/greater/less/etc. than "Value"

Poller Status can be selected under Custom Node Pollers > Status.

Once Selected this you can setup any alert actions you need by configuring the Trigger Actions tab.

HTH,

Yann