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Ability to Hide Certain Tools like Unmanage Node

Before we had Mute Alerts, Unmanage Node was the best option for silencing Alerts during maintenance windows.  Now that we have Mute Alerts, at least in our shop, we no longer need Unmanage Node.  In fact, we prefer staff does not use Unmanage Node because we want Orion to continue collecting stats up until the time a Node goes down for maintenance and again as soon as it comes back up.  However we are finding that some are set in the old ways and still use Unmanage Node.  When they do, this destroys our ability to see, in Orion, what was happening on the Node just before it went down or right after it came back up.

It would be very helpful if we, Orion Administrators, had the ability to hide abilities like Unmanage Node and others even including Mute Alerts.  While I do not understand why anyone would want to, I am sure there are also customers out there who would rather their staff use Unmanage Node and not Mute Alerts.

  • Thank you for the additional information, Mike Lomax​.

  • I did look at this option.  You can only change "Allow Account to Unmanage Objects" if "Allow Node Management Rights" is set to "No".  However when you do this, this also removes the ability to Mute Alerts on a single Node.  The whole "Maintenance Mode" option disappears from the Management wizard on the Node Details page.

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    You do still have the ability to "Pause Actions of all Alerts" from the Active Alerts more menu but that is not what I am looking for.

  • I always assumed the restrictions you wish to impose on certain users are simply part of users' account permissions.  Have you reviewed users' permission to see if you can restrict access to Unmanage Nodes by simply taking the right away from users?  It might be as simple as unchecking a box, or putting them into a different group in SolarWinds. 

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