Hi!
Am I the only one using groups in Solarwinds NPM?
I find itvery strange that it isn't possible to group by groups in "Manage nodes".
Any thoughts?
Best regards,
Joacim
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Thanks for your input.
But it was not what I meant. When using "Node Management -> Manage Nodes" it should be possible to group your nodes by your own created groups.
Regards,
Surely if your using Groups with your Custom Properties, the Custom Properties are already available on the left hand side pane
It sure feels like we are the only ones sometimes.
For the responders:
Groups created under "manage groups" ought to be a pick anywhere in the system where we select nodes.
The only place it seems to be is in SAM, and when listing nodes on a dashboard.
You can not select a group of hosts in "manage nodes", or when assigning a NCM job to hosts (there's a "node group" field but it's empty!)
Worse, you can't set downtime by a group (which is in the manage nodes dialog) which is borderline crippling.
It's baffling why it isn't part of the standard node picker.
Custom properties are great except they're not sufficiently useful for picking nodes in the following ways:
* Group membership can be dynamically evaluated, adding and removing groups based on selection critiera
* Custom properties needs to be manually managed (yes, you can script it, but needing to write that logic is pretty dang manual)
Thank you soulmate! It's so annoying...
If I need to have groups, many times I build the dynamic membership queries on the Custom Properties, CP, values.
To handle the Custom Properties values automatically I use scripts, as you said (and didn't like) but I also sometimes create alert rules that sets my values.
I call the alert rule something like "System - Windows CP" and set it as "Informational"I configure it to only trigger during night time where as few as possible sees them and wonder what they are (if possible)Alert trigger: IF Node.vendor=Windows AND Node.CP.OS != 'Windows'Alert Action: Set Node.CP.OS='Windows'
There you have it, a dynamic way of setting custom properties for those that don't want to create scripts! (Or when I'm to lazy to create a script ;-P)
You mean the groups created into the GUI. They are actually container and like other people answered the only is to use a custom property. I am with you on that. Why Solarwinds doesn't automatically create a property matching "container" so we can sort in manage node using that information.
