Dear

Try using ifAlias match instead of equals.

https://www.observium.org/docs/alert_checker/

Kind regards

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Peter Smith
Sent: donderdag 22 september 2016 11:50
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: [Observium] Port Alerts

Hi,

I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question but I am interested in setting up alerts for key ports only.  I have setup the example which shows Enabled ports which are currently down:

Tests

ifAdminStatus equals up
ifOperStatus notequals up

Entity Match

ifType equals ethernetCsmacd

However I cannot work out how to refine it further - such as trunk ports only or if the port description contains a string, such as "CORE".  We would like to know when key ports go down only.  I have tried adding:

ifAlias equals *CORE*

and similar configuration but I expect I have the syntax incorrect.  The idea would be to alert on either ports containing a certain word in their description or on tagged/trunk ports.

I also tried to find a location to search the old emails from this mailing list but have been unable to find it.

Many thanks,

Peter