I have been trying to set up this parent - child dependencies thing.... but have not been able to.
Maybe I'm looking at this from a wrong angle, but what I would like to do seems pretty straight forward...
One example is a Cisco Nexus device currently being monitored in NPM, also set up "Alert me when node goes down" email alert.
I am also monitoring about 200 interfaces on this device, and these interfaces are part of "Alert me when an interface goes down" email alert.
Whenever one of those interface goes down, I am always happy to see that we receive an email alert about it.
The problem is when the node goes down..... and I receive an email from each one of those 200 interfaces...
We are running NPM 11.0.1 and I would like to set these interfaces as "children" meaning the "Parent" would be the Nexus device. For alerting purposes, I would like to set something like this:
IF (interface) is "down"
and (Parent_Node) is up
then send (Interface_down) alert
IF (interface) is "down"
and (Parent_Node) is down
then send (Node_down) alert
How can I do this? or how can I avoid the trigger of the 200 (interface_down) alerts when I already know the device is down (and its obvious the interfaces would be down too)
Thanks!