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My assumption and the way my office works is that we have teams of systems engineers that administer many servers. A group of admins in Atlanta manage Atlanta servers. A subset of those admins are application specialists so I create a group with servers running that application and I create a new alert to send to the…

The alert property is APM: Component. In my example, any component that goes down on any node will send an email alert with all of the details of what node, what app, and what component is affected. If I need to send the alert to different groups I will make a similar alert but the trigger conditions will be based on…

The IP address in the .BAT file, is that the solarwinds server?

Am I on a different page with the above? Just curious as I'm fairly new to building alerts if my approach is valid. If it's not ideal, I would like to learn and make improvements. Thanks.

Upgrading to the latest version freed up the licenses.

I created a domain service account for this called solarwinds-svc. I added this as a local admin on the solarwinds server and added the account as a solarwinds users with admin rights. I logged into the solarwinds server with this account and logged into the solarwinds website successfully. I also went directly to the URL…

Thanks for the example. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question a bit but this is what I do: I created an alert for whenever ANY component goes down, I get an alert with all of the variables detailing which server and which component was affected. The trigger conditions I use are just to segregate the alert for different…

Has this been verified to work? I like this whole idea of using Treesize.

I ended up creating a support ticket.

Good thought. I forgot to mention that I already did that in my original post.

Can you give an example of what you mean by chaining alert triggers and conditions?

I guess I was approaching this the wrong way. Thanks for the advice.

I figured it was going to require powershell. Thanks for the info.

I thought things like this were updated by Clicking on "List Resources".