APM - Alerts - Regular expression for unix/wintel servers

Products

• CA Application Performance Management SaaS

Issue/Introduction

We have APMIA host monitor for multiple Unix and Wintel servers. We are looking to set up alerts for CPU and Memory for Unix and Wintel servers (2 separate alerts config). We are looking to create a generic regex e.g. (.*). However there is no easy way to identify if a server is Unix vs Wintel for alert. Can you suggest if there is any way  to do this?

 

 

Environment

Release : SAAS

Component : Integration with APM

Resolution

My suggestion would be to rename the agent to include the OS if possible and then use a regex to identify those agents in the metric grouping. 

For Example :

Current Customer's Unix Metric -        SuperDomain|qz11899|Infrastructure|Agent|SystemEdge|a.foo.com|CPU:TotalUtilPercent

If we can change the agent name from Agent to UnixAgentqz11899 or similar, then

we can then use the below to filter on them allowing us to create an Alert on it. 

(.*)\|(.*)\|(Unix.*) for Unix

and (.*)\|(.*)\|(Windows.*) 

Additional Information

APMIA does show OS . Here is a screenshot and a reference. Can you alert on them?

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/dx-apm-agents/apmtest/infrastructure-agent/host-monitoring/host-monitoring-attributes.html

My understanding is that the alert cannot be created on string (in this case Linux or Windows server 2016).