I have been trying, without any luck, to get a reboot alert to trigger when a server in a specific group reboots. I am beginning to think that this cannot be done. Does anyone know for sure?
Well I finally got it to work by following all of your suggestions and throwing in some luck.
I added/enabled the predefined Custom Property "CustomerName". On the servers for the Maximo group, I added "Maximo" to that field, on each server.
Then I created the following alert:
And only had the Maximo team email addresses in the To: field.
I restarted SNMP on one of the servers to run a true test and viola = they received the email!
Thanks for all of the help guys.
- Dave
I just realized that I gave no details.
Orion NPM v 10.1 monitoring Windows servers.
If I'm interpreting this right you need to basically duplicate the built in reboot alert and then make the alert condition an all and include the group contains Specified Group.
Use the Group Member property type and Member Status is equal to Down.
That is it. All server reboot alerts go to my team. I have made a group in Orion for a subset of those servers for a specific group. They want to receive reboot alerts for their servers only. I have tried almost every combination of group/reboot that I know and none work.
What I needs a an alert when a group member reboots.
This is specific to individual members
You could also have the group status roll up set to Show Worst Status and alert off of the group.
I think he is looking for members of only one specific group...so if he had 3 groups called, windows, linux, and network he only wants the windows group to get the alerts. This is why I suggested he also add the condition group name = windows to his alert condition.
When one of the servers in this group reboots, my team will get the "everything" alert, but also, a reboot alert will go to a specific team.
This is what I want:
I don't believe you can do that because the "Group Name" property won't be available for the Node monitor, which is why it's been suggested to use the "Down" status for the group. I can imagine this isn't exactly what you want though as you want specifically Reloads, but I believe Group properties only deal with status/names etc.
Whilst its not perfect, if I was doing this, I would use the Custom Node Property I described above and use that to email people about reboots and ignore groups in the context of creating triggers based on group member specific issues.
