I am trying to set up 2 alerts as a sort of failover measure for my mailservers. If my primary SMTP server goes down, I need Solarwinds to send the alert to the second server instead. I basically need an alert that will only trigger when any node goes down and if the mail server is up and another which only triggers if the mailserver is 'not up'. I have searched and not found anything on this except to say that perhaps SolarWinds does not have the ability to do so. I am using NPM 10.4.2. Until I get my DAG load balanced via my Netscaler successfully, I would like to have this functionality.
I've tried...
...using a group...
trigger if ALL apply
node status is equal to down
trigger if All apply
node name is equal to MyMailServer
node status is equal to up
...and using a complex condition...
trigger if ALL apply
node status is equal to down
value Servername is equal to value Up
Suppressing alerts simply stops all alerts no matter what they are. Am I misunderstanding how Solarwinds handles alerts? Does it simply take one alert at a time and apply all the conditions to it? Is it not possible to apply the conditions to each alert as well as having the alert verify that a particular node is 'Up' or 'Not Up' before sending the alert? From my testing and what extremely little I can find on the web, it seems like alerts can only verify that its conditions either do or do not apply to each alert and that's it.