On 4/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
What you would probably want to do is add an "escalate" property to
event classes. Then this could be applied to things other than
/Status/Ping. You could start by looking at the
EventClassPropertyMixin class in ZenEvents/EventClassInst.py, and in
ZenEvents/MySqlSendEvent.py to do the actual escalation.
>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?
The severity and escalate count are set on thresholds, not data
sources. If you don't have any thresholds in this performance template
you could create one.
--
Chet Luther
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