Hey,
First post here - for probably an easy question. Is there a way in solarwinds to configure polling to only alarm after a set number of missed polls? We have devices that fill the event log when they go unreachable for several minutes at a time.
I am assuming you are using NPM. In advanced alerts you can set a timer for how nolg to wait before triggering. For status polling the default poll cycle is 120 sec. You can set the trigger delay to avoid alerting for shrt outages. Another feature that may be useful is grouping. Here is an example of how to do this with a group of devices that aree know to be bouncing. Here a re a couple of Tech Refs to help you understand what I have done.
http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/UnderstandingOrionAdvancedAlerts.pdf
http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/Groupsanddependencies.pdf
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Andy,
Excellent - thanks for the info. I was actually trying to keep these repeating error messages out of the event log which flush all of the other events from it. I've set the polling interval for 1200 seconds (max) to reduce the occurance of these.
DFZ
Be careful with that setting. With 20 min poll cycles devices can go down for 22 min before you get notified. There is a 2 min period where the devices transition from warning to down. The default action for a node down is send Node ${NodeName} is ${Status} to the alert log. I would recommend examining how long the annoying device are going down for and setting the alert trigger dalay 1 min longer that that number. Or you could just edit the "Alert me when a node goes done" alert and remove that trigger action.
