Advanced alert on comparing two undp

Hello Henrik,

I am affraid that this is not possible in advanced alert manager right now. You have to compare against values saved in proper column in DB which means that there can not be another variable. You can create an feature request for that.

Thanks,

Pavel

It seems like you could just poll both values and do a transform.  Then just alert on the transform.

I handled a similar use case like this.  I polled total swap space and I polled swap space available...and then subtracted the second from the first with a transform, alerting when the transform was over 100 MB.  Mechanically not much different if I understand your request correctly.

Hi,

Thanks for the response - I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier

Anyways, this only helps me halfway.

I can now transform the value to something more useful to alert on (Percentage of connections utilized)

The big problem I guess is that the poller gives back a table.

In the alert manager I created a new alert on the transform poller, where the alarm triggers when 'status' is > 80%

but the poller returns an array of values from one node, since it comes from a table with multiple rows like:

status: 1, 3, 7, 2, 0, 2, 2, 4, 10, 0, 49, 0, 0, 3, 0, 2, 60, 0, 0, 0, 12, 43, 26, 7, 1, 2, 5, 1, 0, 14, 1, 0, 0, 4, 1, 5, 1, 20, 1, 0, 3, 10, 0, 0, 3, 1, 1, 0

Best regards,

Henrik Noerr

Looks like you may be able to do something similar to what you're describing in NPM 10.3 beta:

http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/48231

<quote>...your UnDP alerts based on tables can now contain an identification of which row of the table experienced the alert violation condition...</quote>