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Is it possible to have a check run, then IF that check fails run a different (second) check? If that second check fails then send out the notification?
For example Telnet check first, if Telnet Fails, then run a Ping check ? Just an example, we would use it for many different checks.

Apart from our current escalations for notifications, we don't have a feature like that as of yet. However, we're currently developing a "Business Process Intelligence" addon that will allow services to be grouped and have AND/OR dependencies set up, which will hopefully allow for greater flexibility and more advanced options for determining a network state. So for the example below, you would group the telnet and ping, and the state would not go critical unless both were down.

We're looking at this being the first step towards a more complex rules engine for determining states and notifications.

mguthrie wrote:Apart from our current escalations for notifications, we don't have a feature like that as of yet. However, we're currently developing a "Business Process Intelligence" addon that will allow services to be grouped and have AND/OR dependencies set up, which will hopefully allow for greater flexibility and more advanced options for determining a network state. So for the example below, you would group the telnet and ping, and the state would not go critical unless both were down.

We're looking at this being the first step towards a more complex rules engine for determining states and notifications.

Excellent I think that could work for us as well. So this will be available later?

Yeah, we're hoping for a 1.0 release around the end of the month. It will run on both Core and XI installs.

Thankyou, looking forward to it.