I want to create an alarm with different thresholds depending a process is running or not. I already configured scollector as described in http://bosun.org/scollector/process-monitoring and get data points while the process is running. While the process is not running I get no data points. No data points equals the process is down (or there is a problem with the scollector (configuration)).

Question: Is there a cookbook how can I create an alarm with different thresholds depending a process is running or not? Is there a query that if no data points are available then do something?

Below a part of the Bosun Alarm I created so far. However this one is failing if the process is down and no data points are available. Still it might be helpful to understand my questions.