Alert on Sum of 2 instance datapoints?
Apologies if this is super basic stuff. I sometimes want to do things I cant figure out, only to have it be something so basic that I should have learned 3 years ago when I was new.
A user wants to be able to take X number of "SNMP Network Interfaces" instances, and possible multiple datapoints from those instances, and add them together into a total that can be displayed, graphed, and alerted on.
MyUtilization = InterfaceA.InBps + InterfaceA.OutBps + InterfaceB.InBps + InterfaceB.OutBps
They only want to graph MyUtilization, which is doable with a widget (using a virtual datapoint built from real datapoints). But they really want this summed value to show up in raw data somewhere where they can set a threshold and have it send alerts on the total, not the individual pieces.
Short of making a custom datasource or something, is there a way to do it? Even in UIv4 I'm not seeing in the widgets a way to set a threshold on a virtual datapoint, unless I'm missing it. My brain doesnt process UIv4 well. And then I thought about experimenting with Services, and I can kinda show the values of a list of arbitrary datapoints and set thresholds on those, but I cant figure out how to sum them in any way. I was hoping the Services feature allows this. Maybe it does and I'm just UI-challenged.
Is this possible, is it something basic that I have no excuse to not know, or is it not yet possible?
Thanks!