My company has recently purchased and implemented Solarwinds NPM and SAM. I have 2 questions that i have looked around on thwack but the threads i have found are either extremely old or not applicable.
1. What is Solarwinds (or any) recommendation for monitoring the actual Solarwinds server, is there a failsafe feature built in? What is the recommended solution for ensuring you get alerts if your Solarwinds server goes down.
2. I am trying to configure an alert for when a node goes down, and the default one is working fine at the moment, but I would like to add the function that it not alert me when the node has been gracefully shutdown. What is the best way this is accomplished? I've read that a manage/unmanaged script is probably the best way, but I am interested in seeing if there are other ways to accomplish this.
Thanks