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birchall
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26 days ago
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Alert if other datapoint = x

Hey folks,  I have a custom Powershell script, that effectively returns 2 results.  DaysRemaining     Returns any integer value     This datapoint alerts when there is <=30 days remaining  InU...
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    Mike_Moniz
    26 days ago

    You can use Complex Datapoints that has an IF expression that can return a different value depending on the InUse state. You would then setup thresholds on this datapoint instead of the original DaysRemaining. There are several built-in Datasources that do this, like AWS_EC2 and AWS_Connect.

    So something like this (did not test): if(eq(InUse,1),DaysRemaining,unkn()) , which you can then name "DaysRemainingIfInUse" or the like.

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Mike_Moniz
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You can use Complex Datapoints that has an IF expression that can return a different value depending on the InUse state. You would then setup thresholds on this datapoint instead of the original DaysRemaining. There are several built-in Datasources that do this, like AWS_EC2 and AWS_Connect.

So something like this (did not test): if(eq(InUse,1),DaysRemaining,unkn()) , which you can then name "DaysRemainingIfInUse" or the like.

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birchall
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26 days ago

That has worked a treat thank you very much