Sum across DataSources and dynamic alert levels

Yes, this would be handy, what's the point if making your infrastructure redundant if the available resources aren't there when you need them. Great idea!

This is a feature request of my team also.

I would also love to see this. I would really like to be able to put a capacity management dashboard together and need to be able to perform sum calculations across multiple devices/datasources.

I would love to see this as well.  Actually I have a similar issue.  I would love to be able to do this across different devices.  For example, we have 2 PDU's in a rack.  They're completely seperate devices, but I need to know the aggregate power, and in turn have an aggregate threshold so I know if I've over subscribed the aggregate power.

likely you could achieve this with groovy and the java api, do a query and do your calcs on the vcenter box instead of doing it on the LM side. 

6 minutes ago, Tom Lasswell said:

likely you could achieve this with groovy and the java api, do a query and do your calcs on the vcenter box instead of doing it on the LM side. 

This is true, I would actually say it should be simple enough to figure out at a cluster level.  That said though, this functionality would still be useful for cases like mine.  You won't always have a central console to do these calculations.  Short of having a really great naming scheme and some crazy scripting, you currently don't have a good way to aggregate resources.  Another prime example would be a web cluster.  If i have 8 server in a cluster, it would be nice to know that if I lose 2/6 web servers, I'm still ok CPU / memory wise (in theory at least).

41 minutes ago, Eric Singer said:

 

This is true, I would actually say it should be simple enough to figure out at a cluster level.  That said though, this functionality would still be useful for cases like mine.  You won't always have a central console to do these calculations.  Short of having a really great naming scheme and some crazy scripting, you currently don't have a good way to aggregate resources.  Another prime example would be a web cluster.  If i have 8 server in a cluster, it would be nice to know that if I lose 2/6 web servers, I'm still ok CPU / memory wise (in theory at least).

i agree, scripting is always an option by using the RPC calls for GetData from LM and calculate that way, though, like you said "some crazy scripting". :)/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" title=":)" width="20">

We're working on a feature that will enable much more flexible alerting across DataSources and Devices, and should address this request. At a high level, we'll allow you to group together instances across devices and set aggregate thresholds for the group - one of the primary use cases is better alerting for clustered resources.