I wanted to ask the community about best practice or what others may be doing for auditing and testing Alerts on a regular basis. This has come up as a result of a recent scenario where we had an event that did not trigger an alert that it should have and this alert had been in place for some time. This alert was specifically for switch stack losing members and when it was created several years ago there were some limitations within NPM for alerting on switch stacks and member switches. Over time there have been more abilities put in place with updates to NPM. I just setup a new alert on Switch Stack using New Member Count is less than Old Member Count. I actually got this idea from another THWACK thread. This alert simulated ok and then actually fired off the other night too.
This alert and most all our alerts are setup to send an Email as a trigger action so I am familiar with the Simulate option on Alerts that allows you to Simulate or Execute the Alert. Does anyone have any good routines in place or advice for how to review Alerts and check or test them on a routine basis and maybe look for alerts that may not work as intended?
Many Thanks.
