Interface Utilization with e.g. Top 5 Conversation Alert

Question

Hi guys,

Hope i'm posting in the right area.

I have alerts setup to monitor both transmit and receive utilization on a router interface.

e.g. Device:      ${NodeName}
       Interface: ${NetObjectName}
       Receive Percentage: ${Interface.InPercentUtil}%
       Receive Amount:        ${Inbps as Bandwidth}bps

This works great but i was wondering if there was a way to include information from NTA such as top 5 conversations or top 5 endpoints, i order to see within the email alert itself which devices are hogging bandwidth.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

qle · Accepted Answer

There are no variables available to embed NetFlow information within e-mail alerts. Instead, you can use the E-Mail a Web Page alert action to forward a web page that would include this information. Specifically, check out the following two canned alerts:

High Receive Percent Utilization with Top Talkers

High Transmit Percent Utilization with Top Talkers

You'll notice the e-mail web page action and the ingenious use of an SQL query to extract a custom URL from the database. I believe the e-mail alert is supposed to include an embedded web page that includes, among other things, the top 5 conversations and top 5 endpoints. The following thread provides more information about these two alerts:

Top Talker Alert