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APM and Advanced Alerts - really need help!

I am using APM to do https content monitoring...when it sees "system is unavailable" it is down...I have configured a separate APM to scan any of the group of IPs of the sites and will let me know if there is a down and it works...fair enough...

NOW...these are in house written applications and they do have their bugs...we sometimes have to "kick" the server, using "iisreset" to get things back running normally (meaning all the sites show as "system is unavailable")...I'm trying to configure an advanced alert to look at a number of sites on one server and if they are all down, let us know immediately...I have tried the following:

Type of Property to monitor: APM-Application

Trigger event when all of the following are true:

field Node Name is equal to value AAA

field Node Status is equal to Down

field Node Name is equal to value BBB

field Node Status is equal to Down

field Node Name is equal to value CCC

field Node Status is equal to Down

tried taking the sites down...does not send an alert...so lots of questions here...should I be using the complex condition (as seen by the "field" and "value") as opposed to a simple condition re; Node Status is Down?...is this even a valid way to do this?...meaning, I have one application that looks at all the sites and reports when one is down...should I be creating a new APM for this and just include the necessary sites?...doing so eats up my licenses, so I would rather do this with the alert..

Anyone out there have any ideas?

Thanks!

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Motty99

Some more information...

The APM that works on a single down site is this:

Type of Property to monitor: APM-Application

Trigger event when all of the following are true:

field Name is equal to value WEBSERVER

field Status is equal to value Down

I tried the following and had no luck:

Type of Property to monitor: APM-Application

Trigger event when all of the following are true:

field Name is equal to value WEBSERVER

field Node Name is equal to value AAA

field Status is equal to value Down

field Node Name is equal to value BBB

field Status is equal to value Down

This doesn't work....please, need some help...

mark_wiggans

Are you looking for (if 3 nodes go down) as opposed to3 applications down?

Motty99

Yes...

I have an application template called WebServer, using the HTTPS Monitor...I have all the IPs for the web site monitored under this...

Again, I want to be able to alert if a certain number of sites fail, so that I can pretty much assume that the web server needs an iisreset...

mark_wiggans

Have you tried to create a APM-Monitor Alert?

Something like

trigger when ALL apply

monitor status is = down

monitor name is = to aaa
monitor name is = to bbb
monitor name is = to ccc

FormerMember

your trigger will only fire if ALL of the servers are down as you have it here.

i think you may want to change it a bit to be like this...

Trigger event when all of the following are true:

field Node Status = down

Trigger Alert when ANY of the following are true:

Node_Name = AAA

Node_Name = BBB

try that and see if you have better results

One big thing is to stay away from supression tab. Orion has never as of yet got this part to work consistently.

Motty99

Looking at this, it seems that if AAA is down but not BBB, then it will fire, and that's not what I want...

Can anyone give me a statement that will work like this?

Trigger when all

Down (whether APM-App or APM-Monitor)

Trigger when all

Name=AAA

Name=BBB

Name=CCC

Cannot get this to run...it will only work if there is just one Name...add a second and it does not work

Ah my...:C

FormerMember

As Josh said above, this isn't possible. You could create an alert on AAA, and then create an Alert Suppression in the Alert Suppression tab so that it won't fire if BBB or CCC are up.

Motty99

Thanks to the wonderful work of Caroline (an Orion engineer), I am now able to do what I wanted to do...it took setting up a template with three HTTPS monitors...setting each to the URL to be monitored...then attaching this to the server IP...net set up an advanced alert...trigger condition on APM-Monitor

Trigger alert when all

Monitor Name is equal to AAA

Monitor Status is not equal to Up

then under Alert Supperssion

Suppress any

Supress all

Monitor Name is equal to BBB

Monitor Status is equal to Up

Supress all

Monitor Name is equal to CCC

Monitor Status is equal to Up