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how to disable all alerts for a node temporarily

If we want to temporarily disable all alerts for a particular node, how do we do that? or all alerts for the whole environment?

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bshopp

Byron is correct is his statement. We may enhance, but we do not plan to fundamentally change how this works in the near future.

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jeff.stewart

You could unmanage the node for the time period that you select. You can do this on the Node Management page.

netlogix

I have a custom Property called StopAlerts and all my alert make sure StopAlerts <> 'Yes'. I saw someone else had N_Mute and did the same thing. When you un-manage, you don't poll any longer. If you want to disable all advanced alerts, either stop the service "SolarWindsAlertingEngine" or check the check box "Disable all Actions" in the top right of Alert Manager.

MrSampsonite

So you added that as a node property and then if there are a bunch of nodes at once you're going to stop monitoring temporarily you go into each one and mark it Yes or No?

MrSampsonite

Then I have to go into every alert and add that as a condition right? Seems like there should be some other built in method instead of adding this for every alert and every node.

byrona

You basically have two options...

The one pointed out by Jeff where you unmanage the node which you can do across multiple nodes in the Node Management section of the WebUI.

The second option is the one pointed out by Netlogix where you use a custom property to stop alerts or "Mute" the node. This option does require you setup a custom property for this and it does require you to have this built into all of your alerts. This is a one time configuration but will work going forward for all of your systems without disabling data-collections. You can also update custom node properties across multiple nodes in the Node Management section of the WebUI.

madisonpaul

Any update on this? This seems like a yawning gap in manageability. There should be a navigation something like this:

* Node -> Manage node -> Enable/disable alerts on THIS node

I should be able to continue managing a device, collecting stats on resource usage, but exclude it, at the node level, from alerting.