Operation dropdown under alert rules, is this new?

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I created a printer supply rule to alert me when toner is low. I didn’t see a specific option for toner supply so I’m also getting alerts when the tray is low on paper, but that’s fine.

I created this rule last week and when I went back to the alert rules that I have assigned to the printers, I see what appears to be a new option called ‘Operation’ which would be fine if it wasn’t pre-filled with a ‘random’ device alert in the dropdown box. For example, my printer supply rule has an option in the Operation box which is a rule for a network switch. I certainly did not add that in the dropdown box for Operation and I’m the only LibreNMS admin.

I also see a 90 day Availability widget/graph/etc under Overall Traffic when clicked in a device, which is nice, but also seems new so it appears something recently updated to reflect these two things.

I’m more concerned with the Operation dropdown as I’m not fully understanding why a printer supply rule has a networking device alert rule in the Operation dropdown.

LibreNMS is fully up to date as far as I can tell.

Thanks.

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The name of the operation is taken from the first alert rule that previous settings were migrated from. If another rule had the same settings it just re-uses the first operation to save duplication.

docs available on operations so go have a read of them.

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Dang, I’m not happy about that, I have a lot of alerts that were created from an existing alert. Now I need to go to all those alerts and change the drop down operation to remove the existing operation. This seems like a step backwards. Thanks for the information.

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What? Why do you need to remove the operation?