Can Orion Network Performance Monitor alerts be configured to ping router, etc before paging?
You can have the alert trigger a page when a certain condition has held true for a certain amount of time.
So how would I go about creating an node down alert and have it ping the router to see if it's a network issue. Retry the node and send alert page if condition still exist after 15 minutes
marvlez-
Orion will continue to ping the device even after it does not respond.
You do not need to set this up with an alert-
see this doc. for a walk through setup:
Trigger Alert when all of the follwoing apply
Node Status is not equal to up
Alert Escalation Tab- delay the execution of this action 15 minutes.
Also this tutorial should point you in the right direction
www.solarwinds.com/.../OrionAdvancedAlerts.html
Here is the list of Node variables
http://www.solarwinds.net/NetPerfMon/SolarWinds/OrionAdministratorGuide.1.294.htm
It sounds like you want to suppress the alert if the router is down, so this should also be included in the alert configuration as well; either as an actual suppression, or as part of the trigger condition itself.
