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Title
Either include or exclude servers or using other filters at the Rule Level -
Description
Need to either include or exclude servers, monitoring agent type, or disk drives at the rule level. -
Cause
Either remove or add unwanted servers, monitoring agent type, or disk drives from a rule, using filters. -
Resolution
This issue can be filtered at the Rule level or Service level(Alarm Filters)If filtered at the Rule level then use(This example was done for "VMW Datastore Total Latency" rule):INCLUDE ONLY TWO SERVERS NAMES word strings:NOTE: Copy a rule and modify the copy as modified rules will not be updated on a subsequent cartridge update.- Go to "Administration | Rules & Notifications | Manage Rules"
- Search for the needed rule and open it (e.g VMW Datastore Total Latency)
- Select the tab "Rule Definition"
- In the rule scope area filter the host using this:
VMWDatastore where (name like 'snap%') or (name like '%TESTING%') - To verify if the adjustment works properly, click on the green check "Validate Rule Scope"; it will return the objects
matching the scope definition - Then copy that output, paste it on txt file and do a search for objects included or excluded.
EXCLUDE ONLY TWO SERVERS NAMES word stringsVMWDatastore where (name ! like 'snap%') and (name ! like '%TESTING%')NOTE: ! operator negates. It is equivalent to not like.EXCLUDE BY uniqueIdVMWDatastore where uniqueId not in { '69025369-073f-4736-b04e-1e8a2c4111d4', '693325369-073f-4736-b04e-1e8a2c4896d4'}WILD CARD CONDITIONS:If you want to filter a server that starts with the word snap then just use: (name like 'snap%')ElseIf you want to filter a server that has the word snap in the middle, then just use: (name like '%snap%')ElseIf you want to filter a server that Ends with the word snap then just use: (name like '%snap')ElseIf you have upper and lower case words, type it as it is: (name like '%TESTING%')EXCLUDE BY ESX SERVERS & VIRTUALCENTER NAMEVMWESXServer where (name like '%snap%') && (virtualCenter.name like '%TESTING%')OTHER FILTERS
Other filters examples used on rule "File System Capacity" which has Rule Scope: Logicaldisk:host.hostType != null andhost.hostType.name = 'Physical' andmonitoringAgent.type = 'WindowsAgent' and
monitoredHost.name like 'xyzServer%' andname not like 'C:%'
This is one rule filter based on Agent Tags defined under Administration │ Agents │ Agent Status
DBSS_Database where monitoringAgent.tags != 'NON-PROD'
One Linux example:
LogicalDisk : name not in {‘/opt/db’,’/etc/proc’} and (detail.writable != false) and host.name in {‘hostname.domain.com’}FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE DOCUMENTATION FOR QUERY LANGUAGE.