Use a Property Source to find dead devices
This is a PropertySource which runs with active discovery and adds the property auto.lmstatus to the device properties with the current Hoststatus value. It does this using the REST API and It wor...
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This is great, just implemented.
Using for another feature as well in a dynamic group. We have at several times where we'll take major site outages that have 100+ devices, the collectors go a little bonkers with the failed task rates, so we can disable all the datasources and any existing alerts when the device goes dead. Added feature :)/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" title=":)" width="20">
I noticed you're using the hostStatus, maybe we could also use the alertStatus as well, break it up, and say what the highest state of alert the device is as well? Does active discovery run when a device changes alert state as well? Or just when it goes from dead to normal?
