Kelemvor
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Need to be able to select NOTHING for Alerting on website checks
When setting up a website check, there are two options for Alerting: Of multiple selected locations Of one selected location The Multiple option is enabled by default, but it doesn't include any details of an alert when one comes in. It just tells me how many checkpoints have a problem. The One option is set to Nothing by default, but that option includes details of website alerts, and is far more useful than the other option. I can enable the second option to start getting alerts there just fine. However, there is no "Nothing" choice for the first option so I can't turn those off. This means that if I enable the second option, I'm going to get duplicate alerts all the time. There needs to be a Nothing option in the first box like there is the second box. For anyone who isn't familiar with the differences between the two alerts, here's a sample of the exact same alert from the two alerting options.Need to be able to set Website settings at the Group level
I need to change the external checkpoints for all the website I have in a certain group/folder. That group has multiple levels of subgroups and dozens of websites. The only way I can see to change this currently is to go one by one and uncheck the unneeded checkpoint on every site individually. It would be so much nicer if I could change the setting at the top level group and then do some sort of "Apply to All" to set those settings on all the sites within that group. Thanks.Anyone else have issues logging into these new forums with Firefox?
Every time I try to log in, I get an error at the bottom of the screen that says: After messing with it, it seems like it really did log me in, it just doesn't look like it logged me in until I refresh the page. Then it will show my username in the corner and everything looks normal. Really annoying though.Re: Can't tell if past alerts were during an SDT or not?!
I've had 3 or 4 people from LM tell me that this problem gets reported all the time and they've been hearing about it for years. You even said you reported it years ago. This is why I have 0 faith in submitting a "Feature Request" because it just goes into a black hole. If I run a report on alerts, while an active alert is in an SDT, there is a field called IN SDT that will show True. When the alert clears, something then sets that field to False. It seems like it they'd just leave that field alone, it would do exactly what the field is called, and report if the alert occurred while the device was IN SDT. Maybe there's no behind the scenes, but if that field was left as True if the SDT was still active when the alert cleared, then we could report on it very easily. Ah well. I won't hold my breath.Can't tell if past alerts were during an SDT or not?!
I consider this a bug, but maybe it's WAD and needs to be reevaluated. When an alert occurs during an SDT, the "IN SDT" field for that alert gets set to True. This is good because the alert is during an SDT. The problem is that once the alert clears, even if it's still in an SDT, the IN SDT field gets changed to False. This is not good. Because it does this, there is no way to run a report on alerts for the week/month/whatever and tell which ones were during an SDT and which ones weren't. Example: We do patching every month and this causes some of our websites and servers to go down, and CPUs to spike, while things are installing and rebooting. We set these to an SDT because we know it's going to happen. When we go to run our monthly alert reports, we see lots of errors for uptime, ping, CPU, etc from the checks that ran during the reboot. We don't need to investigate these because they were during SDT which means they were expected. When I set the IN SDT field to False in the report, assuming it's going to then show me only the alerts that occurred outside of an SDT, that's not what I get. I get EVERY alert because that field gets set to False for every alert when it clears. I don't understand what the rationale is for doing this as it removes very important functionality for anyone who runs reports after-the-fact. Simply leaving the IN SDT field alone, when the alert clears, would solve this problem. If the alerts cleared while in an SDT, leave the field as True. If the alert cleared wile not in an SDT, leave the field as False. That way I can tell, and run reports on, which alerts were expected and which were not. ThanksRe: Why are websites missing so many features and treated differently than computers?
Do you have a definition of "soon" by chance? Weeks? Months? Next year? ;) And do you have any further details on how it will be after the change? I like have Websites in their own section, but it just seems like they were an afterthought and just kind of got stuck in there halfheartedly and never really got integrated. Thanks!
