.. or instilling intelligence into the poller to run polls based on "top level" (least amount of parent devices in tree) ... which is not impossible but definitely fiddly :-)

On 20/05/2016 21:42, Adam Armstrong wrote:

This is fiddly due to the way our poller runs as separated processes. You'd not be able to reliably suppress alerts this way, without also delaying them by up to 5 minutes.

Adam.

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On 20 May 2016, at 19:07, Spencer Ryan <sryan@arbor.net> wrote:
I've asked about this before but how hard would it be for you guys to implement alert dependencies?

The easiest way I can think of doing it would be to simply let us set a "parent" device for anything, and if that device is offline don't send any alerts for downstream devices.

For example we have a testlab that has no UPS/Generator power that we monitor about 200 devices, when the building loses power we get those 200 alarms about devices being offline, when in reality there is a single 6500 as the gateway, and if that switch is offline, i know the rest will be.

We don't want to disable the offline alarms because we do want to know when individual devices drop out.

Thanks!

Spencer Ryan | Senior Systems Administrator | sryan@arbor.net
Arbor Networks
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