Hi Brian,

I recently added probes to my setup and didn't yet add alerts for them.
Essentially, the condition can look like this:
probe_event notequals ok

According to the code I saw (but I am just guessing at this) you can have 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' (the typical return codes for a nagios plugin):
in includes/definitions/entities.inc.php
$config['entities'][$entity]['metrics']['probe_event']          = array('label' => 'Event',        'type' => 'string', 'values' => [ 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' ]);

Tested with the above condition and  it worked as expected.
I am still not clear about the difference between probe_event and status (which seems to bear the same values as probe_event).
I suggest you fiddle with it a bit ;)

As you noted however, google seems to have no clue about this case. Clearly the documentation is missing here.

HTH,

Ahmed.

Le jeu. 15 oct. 2020, à 08 h 15, Brian Bianchi via observium <observium@observium.org> a écrit :

Thanks for the response Adam.

 

That sounds like exactly what I need.

 

Unfortunately I can find little to no documentation on how to set up an probe alert checker.

 

Can you perhaps point me in the right direction?  My device is IP 10.160.96.177, and I am here (below) but not sure how to proceed.  What would be my metric conditions?

 

 

Thanks a great deal for any info you can provide.

 

 

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Wrong type of port, the alert checker you’re looking at is checking a physical port.

 

To check an arbitrary TCP/UDP port you’ll want to add it as a check_tcp or check_udp probe, then the alert checker will test that probe’s status.

 

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Hi folks,

 

I have an application running on port 7990.

 

I would like to create a custom Alert Checker to check if this port is functional.

 

I have read the documentation here:

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

https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/

 

The “port is operational but functionally down” option looks like the one for me.

 

But how the heck do I select a specific port of 7990 to be monitored?

 

Thanks!

 

 

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