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Beginner Alerts Question

I created a group called "Alerts" in my NPM console, and added a few servers and network switches to the group for testing purposes. How do I configure the email alerts to only send for components/nodes that are part of that group? Although I am monitoring other nodes, I do not need to be emailed when they are shutdown. I only want to be notified when something in my Alerts group is rebooted, etc.

Thank you

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adatole

There are two answers I can think of off the top of my head:

you need to change the kind of alert to "Group" instead of "node". That's the dropdown at the top of the alert trigger tag (in the Win32 utility) or the top of the triggers page in the web-based alerting.
don't use groups. Use a custom property which is actually more flexible in terms of what you can do with it (reports, alerts, display, etc).

Let me know if you need more details.

bluefunelemental

‌not sure if others are doing this better then this approach but I make my groups by dynamic queries. I add a node custom Property for something like system then run the dynamic query based on node.system begins with [enter your text here]

GO back and add the system value to your nodes you want. Now they will be added to the group.

NExt update your alerts to include node.system is [your text]

all done.