Hi,
I have been reading up a lot about dependencies and alerts in order to customize the alerting for our environment. We have around 90 sites globally and would like to have some level of intelligent alerting. So what that means is that when a site goes down (all nodes within the group) only the site should alert and not each node within the site (should work if I create a group for the site, and a group for all the nodes within the site, If I understand this correctly). I have also tried the automatic dependency creation to flush out routes, however I am not convinced this is the right way.
I Would then also like a second level dependency, each site has 1 or 2 internet routers, if they go down then none of the child nodes should raise an alert, however this does not mean that the site is down (first level), especially when there are 2 Internet Routers, as one router may be a fail over or simply supply internet to another rack on the site.
It sounds incredibly complex and I am not sure if this is even possible on SolarWinds, might have to do this with the alerts as a second level instead of dependencies.