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Subject: What's the purpose of the Severity field in some Data Sources' Edit Data Source dialog?
Author: [Not Specified]
Posted: 2015-03-12 17:23

If I double-click on the MemoryAvailableBytes data source in the Device/Server/Microsoft template, Zenoss will bring up the Edit Data Source dialog. This particular data source has a severity field, that by default is set to warning. There is no threshold associated with this field in the dialog. What is the purpose of this field How do I know what would trigger an event that would generate a severity of warning based on this field

Thanks!



Subject: Any event generated by that
Author: Andrew Kirch
Posted: 2015-03-13 08:20

Any event generated by that datasource would have a Severity of Warning. If you want to increase/decrease the severity, this is the place to do so.

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Subject: Thanks, Andrew. How do I know
Author: [Not Specified]
Posted: 2015-03-13 09:01

Thanks, Andrew. How do I know what would generate an event I don't see any threshold for this datasource that would have to be passed for an event to be triggered Does Zenoss maintain a set of thresholds somewhere under the hood that would cause an event to be generated



Subject: Since the type of the
Author: Matt
Posted: 2015-03-13 14:37

Since the type of the memoryAvailableKBytes Data Source is SNMP, you should only be able to configure the Name and OID.

At least on my Zenoss 4.2.5 and 5 installation I can't see any Severity configuration on the Data Source itself.

Maybe you can post a screenshot!



Subject: http://postimg.org/image
Author: [Not Specified]
Posted: 2015-03-13 18:18

http://postimg.org/image/bm698sr69/



Subject: Any more input on this? I
Author: [Not Specified]
Posted: 2015-03-25 11:13

Any more input on this I posted the screenshot in the above comment. Thanks!



Subject: I don't know all the possible
Author: Matt
Posted: 2015-03-25 18:34

I don't know all the possible errors of the mentioned Data Source that might trigger an event with the configured severity.

However I would guess that an authentication problem, or no returned data might be one of them.



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