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Alert when no Datastores in DSCluster have at-least 200GB freespace?

Greetings all-- 

I'm looking for a way to build an alert on a datastore cluster object that will fire when NONE of the datastores in the cluster have at-least 200GB freespace.  Anyone know if this is possible?  Supermetric?

 

Thanks!

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lannguyen
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Yes here are the steps

1. Create a new alert definition and select Datastore cluster as your object

2. Change Defined On to child and then select datastore (see screenshot highlighted in red)

3. Create a new symptom for datastore less than 200GB free space

4. Attach it alert and change it to Any(see screenshot highlighted in red)

5. Make sure to go to step 4 and activate it on all active policies.

6. Save the alert

 

 

 

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lannguyen
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Yes here are the steps

1. Create a new alert definition and select Datastore cluster as your object

2. Change Defined On to child and then select datastore (see screenshot highlighted in red)

3. Create a new symptom for datastore less than 200GB free space

4. Attach it alert and change it to Any(see screenshot highlighted in red)

5. Make sure to go to step 4 and activate it on all active policies.

6. Save the alert

 

 

 

lannguyen_0-1626259488141.png

 

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OsburnM
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This alert is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

That said, in addition to the alert, I figured out how to create the supermetric that'll let me build a View>Dashboard with a filter on the view.

Supermetric:  Highest Datastore Freespace in Datastore Cluster

max(${adaptertype=VMWARE, objecttype=Datastore, metric=OnlineCapacityAnalytics|diskspace|total|capacityRemaining, depth=2})

Assign it to Object Type 'Datastore Cluster'

Now, just create a List View showing Datastore Clusters, include the new Supermetric, then add a Filter to the view where the highest value is less than 200 GB.

Works great and  now along with the alert, can also dashboard it.  

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Nice!  You have advance vROPS Skills

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