Hi, Chet:
>Another way you could handle this that would potentially be less
>awkward would be to structure your alerts so that you never receive
>/Status/Ping events from the /Server/Windows device class. You could
>then setup a performance template that included a ping check (via a
>nagios-style plugin) and alert on this. Because it would be in a
>performance template you could use the escalation feature. I think I'd
>still prefer the solution that only involved alerting rules just
>because it wouldn't tax your Zenoss system with the more expensive
>plugin checks. However, if you aren't monitoring a lot of Windows
>devices this wouldn't be a concern.
Thanks for the alternative suggestion. I take it that you believe
that modifying the /Status/Ping implementation so that it can do this
sort of escalation would be difficult? I might be willing to do a
significant amount of work (and contribute it of course), if it'd be
useful to the community, but if doing so would be just too complex, I
won't bother.
>They aren't links because you're only looking at an inherited
>performance template. At the top of the page you'll see something like
>"RRDTemplate @ /Devices/..." that shows you were in the tree this
>template is defined. If you click on the link, it'll take you to the
>definition where you can make changes. Or, if you only want to change
>it for this one device you can click the "Local Copy" button then edit
>the local copy that it creates.
OK, I clicked on "RRDTemplate @ /Devices/Server/Windows", and it took
me to a screen where I see a "Data Sources" section. Inside there I
see four links:
cpuPercentProcessorTime
memoryAvailableKBytes
memoryPagesPerSec
sysUpTime
However, I still don't see where I set the starting severity or an
escalate count. I've tried clicking on the individual data source
links and even on the data point links on the data source pages. I
must be missing something obvious?
--Cliff
_______________________________________________
zenoss-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
