Network Node Heartbeat

Does anyone know how to configure an alert that will fire off 2-3 times a day to tell me that certain monitored nodes are up and fully operational. I am looking for a heartbeat to tell me that the network is operating fine and are services are nominal through out the day. Thanks,

Keith

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davbyrd

You can definitely set it up to be alerted when they are down... Page/Email, etc...

But a random email to say "everything is OK" is a rare request...

Unless someone else has a way they do this, I'd say configure your critical node down alerts to notify you immediately..

Yann

Hi Keith,

It should be possible.

Create a new advanced alert with the following condition:

Node Status is equal to up

If needed add more conditions to match

certain monitored nodes

In the Trigger Actions, click on Add New Action and select "Send an E-Mail/Page"

In the Time of the Day tab, select your shift hours.

Click on Alert Escalation tab and select "Execute this Action repeatedly while the Alert is triggered".

Set the "Execute this Action repeatedly every" to e.g. 3 hours.

The alert should trigger few seconds after you click on Ok and stay triggered all the time. If other alerts are already taking care of the Down status, no need to configure any Reset Action for this new alert.

That was my 2c .

HTH,

Yann