How to deal with patch cycles

Question

I've combed through a number of posts relating to this issue, but haven't found exactly what I'm trying to do yet, but feel free to point me in the right direction.

Currently I have built groups with dynamic queries based on 'Node - comments = "Patch cycle x", now those nodes are populating, and I'm able to mute the alerts for the group, however it is not affecting the application monitors on those nodes. I see I'm able to add to those groups using another dynamic query using 'Application - Node and a few options' but no 'Comments' is there a good way to group all nodes and application monitors that are attached to those nodes and mute alerts all at once?

mesverrum · Accepted Answer

I wouldn't be using the comments property for this since it would be better to just create a new property specifically for patch cycles instead of using a generic one. I typically just do matching custom properties on the node and app, then I use an alert with logic that says something to the effect of node patch_cycle = "x" and (      Application Patch_cycle is blank      OR      Application Patch_cycle not equal to "x" ) Then my action is just to set application Patch_Cycle to = the Node Patch_cycle This way any time i create a new app it automatically inherits the patch cycle of whatever the parent node has, and if i change the parent node it will sync up all the app children. Then you just do two dynamic queries on your group, one for nodes where patch_cycle = "x" and another where applications where patch_cycle = "x"