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Active Console - alert on one cell based on the value of another cell

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Creating an alert on one cell based on the value of another cell

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Create a rule that uses Path Alias Copied

  1. Identify the cell that you want the alert to be on. In this example, we will use percentUserTime (highlighted in yellow) to alert based on percentUtilisation (highlighted in red):

percentUserTime and percentUtilisation cells

  1. Create a rule with a target as the path value of the cell for percentUserTime.

percentUserTime rule

  1. In the Advanced tab > Path aliases in the text field, drag the cell you want the value to be based on and give it a name.

percentUtilisation path alias

In this case, we are using path for percentUtilisation: /geneos/gateway[(@name="TestGateway")]/directory/probe[(@name="sysmon\_probe")]/managedEntity[(@name="cpu\_entity")]/sampler[(@name="cpu\_sampler")][(@type="")]/dataview[(@name="cpu\_sampler")]/rows/row[(@name="cpu\_0")]/cell[(@column="percentUtilisation")]

  1. Going back to the Basic tab, create a rule using the name above and referencing it using percentutil and setting a variable $(percentutil).

percentUtilisation rule block

  1. Save your rule and see if an alert is being triggered based on the percentUtilisation.

percentUtilisation saved rule

6.Right-click on the cell and select Show Rules and an output of the rule you just created will show.

percentUtilisation output

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