Since I have purchased this product and it comes with some level of tech support…I will let observium help me.

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From: Graeme Davis via observium observium@lists.observium.org Sent: Friday, February 2, 2024 3:18 PM To: Observium observium@lists.observium.org Cc: Graeme Davis graeme@graeme.org Subject: [Observium] Re: alert checker for specific ping probes

I would try and figure it out myself so I could learn how it works. There’s plenty of documentation and examples out there. Set up a test whatever, mess with the alert checker definition, manually run the poller and look at the entries it’s putting into the DB until it does what you want. 🤷‍♂️

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 3:11 PM Tony Guadagno via observium <observium@lists.observium.orgmailto:observium@lists.observium.org> wrote: Observium support: can someone please address my question.

Thanks

Hi, I have a bunch of ping probes and I would like to write an alert for some (but not all). Since the hostname is the same for all, how can I differentiate between them in an alert checker…for example, I want to alert on this: [cid:image002.jpg@01DA55EB.7738D620]

But not this: [cid:image003.jpg@01DA55EB.7738D620]

thanks

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The correct and only real way to tell probes created this way apart is by the user-defined probe description, which in this case actually does seemingly include the hostname.

It's a but clunky because it'd likely require a bunch of "OR" rules in the association ruleset to match each of the hostnames if a pattern can't exactly match what's needed, though.

Note that there's officially no direct support with the "Professional" edition, as it's intended for the service provider sector which often neither needs nor wants to pay for support. Enterprise is the officially supported product.

Though we do tend to answer most questions on the mailing list and discord if someone else doesn't answer them better first.

Thanks, adam.

Graeme Davis via observium wrote on 2024-02-02 20:33:

Cool, I just thought that since you were an “IT consultant” that I would give you some helpful ideas!

Have a great weekend!

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 3:21 PM Tony Guadagno <tonyg@guadagno.org mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> wrote:

Since I have purchased this product and it comes with some level
of tech support…I will let observium help me.

Tony Guadagno

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*From:*Graeme Davis via observium <observium@lists.observium.org
<mailto:observium@lists.observium.org>>
*Sent:* Friday, February 2, 2024 3:18 PM
*To:* Observium <observium@lists.observium.org
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*Cc:* Graeme Davis <graeme@graeme.org <mailto:graeme@graeme.org>>
*Subject:* [Observium] Re: alert checker for specific ping probes

I would try and figure it out myself so I could learn how it
works.  There’s plenty of documentation and examples out there. 
Set up a test whatever, mess with the alert checker definition,
manually run the poller and look at the entries it’s putting into
the DB until it does what you want. 🤷‍♂️

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 3:11 PM Tony Guadagno via observium
<observium@lists.observium.org
<mailto:observium@lists.observium.org>> wrote:

    Observium support: can someone please address my question.

    Thanks

    Hi, I have a bunch of ping probes and I would like to write an
    alert for some (but not all).  Since the hostname is the same
    for all, how can I differentiate between them in an alert
    checker…for example, I want to alert on this:

    But not this:

    thanks

    Tony Guadagno

    O +1 585 577 1003

    C +1 585 703 6700

    E tonyg@guadagnoconsulting.com
    <mailto:tonyg@guadagnoconsulting.com>

    cid:image001.jpg@01D84DD6.FC9912E0

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