We are testing Solarwinds NPM for monitoring a LAN&WAN network of over 2000 devices (routers, switches, firewalls). The network is highly resilient with dual connections to most sites and between routers and switches, so we need to rely heavily on interface alerts, not just node down.
All the network devices will be in NPM, but PC / Laptop / Server devices that connect into the switches at the sites are not in NPM (they are not our responsibility)
We want interface down alerts for any interfaces that are used to connect the device we have in NPM together - i.e. (inter site links, router to switch links, switch to switch links etc) but we do not want interface down alerts for the switch interfaces used to connect to PCs / laptops etc.
Obviously, we could use a custom property to mark each interface we wanted to alert on, but that's going to be a massive job to trawl through all the devices and manually mark the interfaces we are interested in.
Given that all the interfaces we want to alert on connect nodes that are in NPM, and that we are using Network Topology Mapper to generate maps, is there any way we can use the topology information to help enable alerts on the interfaces used for interconnects and ignore the "end user device" interfaces?