I tried to do alert dependencies by using alert suppression through basic alerts but it does not work the way I want it to. Orion does not seem to make sure the device that would suppress the alert is up before it triggers an alert. It seems to fire alerts as they happen without doing any checking. For instance lets say device b,c,d, and e are dependent on a. If Orion sees b,c,d and e down before a it will send out 5 alerts instead of just one for a.
I keep reading about people doing alert suppression but they never state how they accomplished it. What I need to know is how to get my alert suppression to work correctly so I only receive an alert the main device that is down instead of receiving alerts from the dependent devices as well.
