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Leveraging the Power of Custom PropertiesWith Leon Adato, Monitoring Architect at Cardinal Health®

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Custom Properties - Uses

» Custom asset information – PO #, Purchase date, etc.» Account Limitations» Reporting» Grouping» Executing scripts» Alerting

Mute Set thresholds by device

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Common Uses – Node grouping

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Common Uses – Alert trigger

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Please just shut up

MUTE!!

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UnManage – Good, but not perfect

» No data is being collected!!» WHY is it muted?» Requires start/stop date to work

Leads to 1/1/9999 effect

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Lights Are Off – Is Anybody Home?

» This Node is Unmanaged. » Is it up?» Is it down? » Who knows?!?!

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And We’re Walking….

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Mute – Also Good for Disks!

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Alert Management Made… easy?

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CPU Threshold Per Server

NodeID Caption IP_Address CPU_Threshold

5 FakeServer134 10.1.2.3 97

17 HowMayIServerYou 10.1.2.4 80

207 IcanHazSrvrz 10.1.2.5

210 BoomHeadshot 192.168.1.100 250

315 MyLittleServer 172.16.42.42

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CPU Alert Customized Per Node

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And We’re Walking…

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Also Pairs Well With:

» RAM» Disk Space» Bandwidth» PacketLoss» …and MORE!

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