My company has a large number of offices spread out over the States. Each office has their own subnet on the 10. Network. I am working on setting up dependencies based off the office/subnet so we don’t get hammered with alerts when a VPN or MPLS connection goes down.
I was told about groups/dependencies in the Alerts Lab and wanted to go that route with dynamic groups to make maintenance easier but am running into the following problem:
I took office ABC as a test and their subnet is 10.130.5.*, their primary router is 10.130.5.1. So I setup a new group called ABC Test with a dynamic query of “IP Address starts with 10.130.5.” and it picked up everything in the subnet.
I went to setup a new dependency and put 10.130.5.1 as the parent and tried to set the ABC Test group as the child, but I can’t because the dynamic query is putting the 10.130.5.1 router IP in the group.
Am I not able to use dynamic groups in this fashion, or am setting this up incorrectly? I know I can go with non-dynamic groups, but we have 2 other departments who add various devices to the other subnets that I would like to have auto-joined to the group. I didn’t see a way to exclude a device from a dynamic query group.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
