Is there anywhere in the solarwinds app that will show just "down" hosts eg. windows and unknown so the page could for eg. be constantly displayed as a quick reference?
There is a "Down Nodes" resource available as standard. You can find it under "Summary Reports" when you add a resource when customising a page.
Otherwise, use an All Nodes resource and you can apply filters from the "Edit" screen.
You could either have this on the NPM Summary page, or create a custom view with just that resource on it.
where do you customize a page now? looks like its changed a bit since i last looked!
Go to Settings -> Manage Views, then choose the view you want to edit. You'll see the settings option in the very top right corner of the web console.
thanks!