How to prevent thousands of alerts in an event of an outage?

mastarron

Hey team,

 

We are receiving thousands of alerts when we are having an outage. An example; Link to one of our data centers goes down, and we lose access to all of the managed network devices, it is fine that the NODES alarm as being down, but it is an issue, that EVERY managed port also starts to alarm. How can we set it up so if a node is deemed unreachable/down, to not alarm any of its managed interfaces?

 

 

I did a search and was not able to find anything, if there is another thread with the same issue, please provide the link.

 

 

thanks,

mastarron

kevin2me

Hello,

In latest Release of Orion NPM we added Dynamic Service Groups and Dependencies

With the introduction of Dynamic Service Groups in NPM 10.1, you can group multiple Orion objects (e.g., nodes, interfaces, applications, etc.) into a container that can be used to visualize status.   For example, you can create a “WAN Links” Group, add several interfaces, and then set Group rollup status mode to “best” to account for link redundancy.  See this post for a detailed walk-through with screen shots.  Once you’ve grouped your objects, you can configure a dependency for the group to suppress alerts based on a particular interface, node, or group being down.  The best part is you don’t need to change any of your existing alert configurations!  See this post for more details.  

Here is good document to read on this:
http://www.solarwinds.com/support/Orion/docs/Groupsanddependencies.pdf 

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Hopefully above will help,
Many Thanks, Kev