Managing a specific list of interfaces

Question

I have a list of dozens of microwave links in multiple regions I need to report on, alert on and perhaps build views to show real-time stats as a group.  These are routers, specific pairs of router interfaces and associated microwave radio pairs.  The first thing I want is to see utilization reports.  I want to see a list of links, pick a link, see the report, and/or I want to be able to access all the reports on a view, or perhaps to email, print or deliver in some way.  I'd like to see a view that gives me pertinent performance rankings and custom alerts for just this group of links.

Most of the network I'm monitoring is this network of microwaves, but there are many other links like fiber backhauls and other infrastructure and random other ports I'm not really interested in at all.  I might want to have a separate group with similar requirements for the fiber backhauls for example.  I'm trying to understand how I should best model this in SW.  I don't think I can really manage this with node based organization.  I feel like I want to make a group, and add all these links in as interfaces.  Then, to start, I want to define a report with everything in the group.  I'm finding it very slow and tedious just to find and look at these interfaces.  How can I make it easier in the future to keep this list up to date as new links get added or deleted?  I guess my first question is should I define all these links as one or more groups?  Then can I generate reports simultaneously for every link in the group?

d09h · Answer

Have you made a view limitation? https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Adding-View-Limitations-Video

For your groups, dynamically populate wherever possible as in step 5:  Create groups

For populating the properties, you may prefer.to do this offline via a spreadsheet as described here:  Success Center

Note that spreadsheet filters and sorting can lessen the effort in assigning custom property values.

Create a custom property in the Orion Platform

brett.curtis · Answer

I did create a group with a few of these interfaces.  I've started by creating a view and putting a top XX utilization report on it, but it's listing all interfaces, not just from my group.  How do I build a custom filter to select just the links in my group?