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Alerts based on Groups?

aaron22 over 6 years ago

I have a number of wireless radios being monitored by Orion and I'd like to configure different alert settings for these since their connections often drop in and out frequently. I've added them to a group and am trying to figure out how to add them into the 'Scope' section of the Alert configuration but I can't find anyway to select a node by its group association. For example, I've added these radios to the group named 'Radios' and want to create a custom alert that will let me know when those nodes go down for more than 15 minutes.

What's the best way to do this?

0 mesverrum over 6 years ago

You basically cannot do that through the GUI. Unfortunately the grouping function in orion isn't easily tied to alerts. What is generally easiest is you should create a custom property that will track these nodes for you, and then you can go to the custom property editor and one of the options you will have in the drop down on the left is to group by Groups, where you can select your group and set the property for all the nodes in that group at once.
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0 aaron22 over 6 years ago in reply to mesverrum

Would I have to edit this on a node-by-node basis? Is there anyway I can easily assign this to a large number of nodes?
I may poke around and try to think of some other ways I can scope this automatically. I definitely don't want the wrong alert setting assigned to the wrong node!
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0 mesverrum over 6 years ago in reply to aaron22

Like I said, if you go to the custom property editor (all settings> manage custom properties> check the properties you want to work with then view/edit values) you can use the group by options to filter to only nodes in a particular group and then select all the nodes in the group at once and bulk set the property.
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0 d09h over 6 years ago

Use custom property assignment for desired nodes. Then create group with membership dynamically assigned where that property matches.
See step 5: http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/orionplatform/content/core-creating-groups-sw2591.htm_
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0 jellobones over 6 years ago

You're going to have to alert on Nodes using a Custom SQL Alert:
Where NodeID in
(SELECT n.NodeID
FROM (Select NodeID, Status FROm Nodes) n
     INNER JOIN ContainerMemberSnapshots gm
      ON n.NodeID=gm.EntityID
     INNER JOIN Containers g
      ON gm.ContainerID=g.ContainerID
WHERE g.name = 'Radios' AND n.Status = 2)
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