My manager wants to know which circumstances will generate an event with
severity=Warning,
which events will generate a severity=Error
and which events will generate a severity=Critical 
for all items monitored by Zenoss.

I thought I would answer this with a custom report.
I am not sure about the report query terms.
I've reviewed the reports that come with Zenoss.  If an existing report
would solve this, 
I'd rather build upon that than start from a blank state.
If there's a better way to "frame the question," I'm all ears.

Has anyone done something like this before?

My Zenoss install has device classes like the following:
/Device/Network
/Device/Server/Linux
/Device/Server/Solaris
/Device/Server/Windows
/Device/Storage/NetApp
/Device/Storage/EMC

I believe I would need to build a custom report that will show all
thresholds on all templates
grouped by Device Class,
and with specific Device exceptions

For example,
/Devices  /Server  /Templates  /FileSystem 
has  a Free Space 90 Percent threshold
that throws a severity=Warning event
of event class /Perf/Filesystem
when here.totalBlocks * .9 is met.

I would like to show this Free Space 90 Percent threshold as the default
for the /Device/Server device class,
and then break out as exceptions 
the two machines 
that have a different threshold defined: 
Free Space 80 Percent
and/or different severity levels attached to the unique threshold.

I picture the output as three columns:
Device Class  ||  Threshold name || Severity 
/Devices/Server/Templates/FileSystem||Free Space 90 Percent||Warning
/Devices/Server/Solaris/Host1/Templates/FileSystem||Free Space 80
Percent||Warning
/Devices/Server/Solaris/Host2/Templates/FileSystem||Free Space 80
Percent||Critical

I've built a custom report before.
I'm running Zenoss Enterprise 2.1.3 
I've reviewed the Appendix B. Event Database Dictionary  terms at
http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/zenoss-guide/2.1.1/apbs01.html


Any suggestions on how to implement this would be most welcome.

Thanks,
David
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