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I've created a bunch of views that are basically subnets of different types of users. I am trying to set up an alert that is tied to a view, that triggers on X amount of flows. Associating it with a view is simple I can do that. What I can't figure out is why the amount of flows never exceeds 1 when I create the alert. The specific view I am querying has 5 /22's in it, and when I click on the source then filter by view I see tons of flows, but in the alerting only 1 flow shows up.

What do you have defined for the warning and critical threshold? Can you send us a screenshot of your step 2 page of the alert setup?

Thank you

See attached.

Also if I'm using a view in my alert, why do I still need to specify IP information on the next page? I've already specified the IP information in my view. Either way I can't get it to alert on flow count no matter what I try. It only ever says there is 1 flow for that whole subnet I'm trying to alert on. Weird.

See attached, it has three screenshots. The first screenshot is from Sources->Click on Source then display the view. It shows thousands of flows. The second screen shot is from the "Alerting" page and shows that check having zero flows. The third screen shot shows the "Edit" of that particular check, showing that it is using that View.

We have an internal bug report already filed to our system (Task ID 6371), which is related to the issue that you are having.

lmiltchev wrote:We have an internal bug report already filed to our system (Task ID 6371), which is related to the issue that you are having.

How long will it take to get fixed? This was the one feature that we really needed Nagios NA for.

Unfortunately it's somewhat out of our hands once it is in the Dev task list. I can ask for an ETA, but aside from adding a +1 (or asking nicely) we don't have much sway over what gets fixed or when.

I've just figured out that this problem persists regardless of what you analyze traffic for. It's not accurate for Packets, Bytes, or Bytes/Second. I've tried it with everything.

I've added this to the bug report. Thank you for the information.