As many are aware, one of the shortcoming of Orion is it's inability to correctly show a node that is up but whose data is no longer being collected (SNMP issues). We are trying to set up alerts for this condition but want to verify the current state of Orion as it pertains to how it handles this condition.
The two advanced alerts we are looking at are:
- Alert me when a managed node has not been polled during the last 5 tries
- Alert me when a managed node last poll time is 10 minutes old
Reading through thwack, it looks as if these two alerts really won't do what we need as they seem to use PING status and not SNMP status, as per the threads below:
- Alert me when a managed node last poll time is 10 minutes
- NPM does not alert when a Windows device goes unresponsive when polling method is SNMP
We just want to me sure this is still the case in NPM 10.7. Do we still need to use custom SQL to do this?