Welcome to the Forums Bogor & the world that is Orion. Grouping is one of the main features of Orion. This can be accomplished with the Custom Property Editor. You can create any custom property you like and use this for alerting, reporting and many others. Using a combination of properties, it is...

Yes, you could add multiple custom properties and then create a suppression for each one. Here is an old screen shot: So since the alert suppression is first in the list, non of the alerts following will be executed. If my e-mail alert was first, then it would be sent out. When the router listed in the...

Three years ago SolarWinds support gave me a special suppression dll that allows for suppressing a node based on the status of a node specified in a custom property. It was extremely helpful in our environment since we were monitoring 1000 routers and the devices behind them. I was going to explain how...

Hello all, I am still confused by Alert Suppression. Let me start with a simple scenario. I have the following hypothetical setup: Orion > RouterA>RouterB>SwitchA>25 Servers connected to the switch I want to monitor the devices RouterA, RouterB, SwitchA, and each of the servers connected...

Has anyone played with alert suppression in the advanced alerts? It doesnt seem that I can create a NODE alert and suppress it with a INTERFACE down status. Example: DS3 interface on a router goes down.. Dont alert on all the Satellite modems behind that DS3. Simple suppresion example, but it doesnt...

Just to be clear on the functionality needed: The previous global alert suppression for the basic alerting engine allowed for multiple custom properties to be checked for status and suppressing alerts if any of them were down. So going forward, I would like at least that functionality in the advanced...