Alerts for Cisco Switches

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Hello there, 
 
 I have inherited a Solarwinds install, and over the years so many devices have been added that the alerts are a bit of a mess. 
 They alert on "almost everything possible" on so many different devices, servers, application and network equipment. 
 
 Is there a way I can just see alerts on the 540 Cisco switches? Either by some kind of filter or can I make a "new" dashboard/view just for Cisco? 
 After having done the above I would like to tune up what we are alerting on. 
 
 I am a complete noob with Solarwinds so please be gentle, also no idea about SQL or any other query language so, should that be required. 
 
 Any help to start me on my Solarwinds journey and de-clutter the alerts are very much appreciated :-)

lynchnigel · Answer

In addition you can combine an alert with custom properties 
 For edge switches and routers we have added an extension to the name (caption / node name ) to differentiate (we have combined Cisco and Aruba switches) which means that they can be alerted on combined with such as a node room area. In this case we are telling the alerts to not alert on this group if the custom property includes the words 'non alerting group' (spelt wrongly lol) 
 obviously you can add vendor = 'Cisco' instead etc. 
 
 Remember what ever you use here, will probably help with dashboards - so have a think about custom properties and how they might help you

Alerts for Cisco Switches

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