Alerting and ignoring certain nodes for interfaces

cereal83

Hi all,

 

I am trying to set a rule to ignore a certain set of nodes. They are all on the same subnet so I tried to add a rule to not alert if a port is down on any switch that is in the 10.5.128.* subnet yet it is still showing up in the last 25 events on my main page. Is there something I can do to totally not report if certain interfaces are down for these set of switches?

 

Here is a screenshot to my rule.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/mypersonalpics/solarwinds/5c427715.jpg

 

Thanks

mrxinu

The events page and the alerts are two separate things.

If NPM sees a node go down and it's not 'unmanaged' it's going to show up in the events listing.  What you've created is a node down alert that's focused on nodes that aren't in that subnet (sort of - the condition you used needs to be 'contains' not 'equal to' in order for the wildcard to work). The event resource is always going to be a bit noisy. Limit it to 5 or 10 or remove it from the page. If you only mean to see the things that are alerting, use the active alerts resource instead.