Question about Alert Suppression

aboulton

I would like to set up an alert based off of the default "Alert me when a Node goes down" alert.  I would like this alert to be suppressed if a group or groups is/are down.  The issue I am running into is that  under trigger condition tab for the alert to monitor the nodes the type of property to monitor is set as Node.  So it looks like I can not add a trigger condition based off of a group type check.

Is it possible to suppress any notifications from this this alert by using a check the status of a group condition?

We are receiving 100+ alerts anytime we have a network outage.  This makes it difficult to use the Alerts to troubleshoot the outage.  I have added groups for the key areas of the network, HQ-Router group for example.  If the HQ -router group is down I do not want to receive the 100+ alerts from all of the nodes that Orion thinks are down because it can not poll them due to the network outage.

Thank you

Andrew

zkahl

Andrew,

This will be best done by using dependencies.  Since you already have the groups defined, it will be pretty easy to do this.  Just create a dependency, and make a parent and child.  Either can be a group.  When a parent is down, the child group will go into 'unreachable' instead of down.  And you won't get all the extra alerts.

Zak Kahl

Looop1 Systems