Some of the Applications Manager customers prefer to get a single alert when a server and all monitors on the server are down. That means, when my server itself is down, donot send me server + no. of monitors being monitored on the server number of down alerts. This could be annoying especially when you get sms alerts.

What you can do to workaround this is to create a monitor group and configure alert escalation only for availability at the monitor group level. Hence when any monitor(s) in that group is down, you get an alert saying the group is critical.

A lesser know feature is present here where you can use this to suppress alerts across servers, especially in a clustered setup. You can even configure availability alerts such that only if atleast 2 monitors are down, notify me. We are looking to improve that, hence we would love to hear from you…

Today’s Unrelated Note :-)

A quote by Mother Teresa - “Peace begins with a smile.”

Hope the whole world starts smiling in year 2006.