[Observium] Re: APC Smart-UPS SRT 6000 Alerting

2023-08-24 Thread James Tandy via observium
Personally I'd suggest using both styles of alerts (for some at least where it makes sense) - mainly for the (albeit rare) cases where a device itself stops reporting sane limits, which I have seen a few times - though tbf not on eaton UPSes. EG one (non UPS) example of this includes... Aruba

[Observium] Re: APC Smart-UPS SRT 6000 Alerting

2023-08-24 Thread Bryan Fields via observium
On 8/24/23 4:18 PM, Ryan, Spencer J. wrote: I don't have any APC units to test with (we've long ago given up on them and moved to Eaton), but instead of looking for specific values we let the device decide if something is good or bad. We have three generic alerts that cover all of our devices:

[Observium] Re: APC Smart-UPS SRT 6000 Alerting

2023-08-24 Thread Ryan, Spencer J. via observium
I don't have any APC units to test with (we've long ago given up on them and moved to Eaton), but instead of looking for specific values we let the device decide if something is good or bad. We have three generic alerts that cover all of our devices: status_eventequals alert sensor_value