We are working on migrating our production environment from Managed to SaaS, and part of this migration is to move synthetic PING monitors to NAM. For my use case, all of the usual means of monitoring availability were not feasible, thus using the PING extension was used for availability. Each host was setup in the PING extension thus resulting in an individual CUSTOM_DEVICE or EXTERNAL_SYNTHETIC_TEST entity type which allowed me to use the entity selector or monitoring entity rule type. In NAM, the synthetic monitoring configuration was set up as an ICMP type, and under target selection, a list of targets (IPs and hostnames) for each host were entered. These hosts have multiple functionalities and the customer would like to see availability for each functionality, separated by data center location.
This is what I know...
"type": "MULTIPROTOCOL_MONITOR",
"displayName": "Network availability monitor",
"dimensionKey": "dt.entity.multiprotocol_monitor"
Is there a way to tag these hosts using entity selector? I'm guessing this would include an attribute, but the attribute in question is a "List" type and not a "String" type.
"id": "steps",
"type": "List",
"displayName": "steps"
My teammate suggested using groups; while a good suggestion, I would still need to "tag" each host with the respective role/functionality. It was also suggested using targets, but I don't see the target attribute available for this entity type. It seems the "target filter" might be a possibility, but I'm not sure. Attached is the dashboard which was used in Managed.
Can auto tag rules be created using a filter expression? How are NAM entities tagged using auto tag rules? Using entity selector?
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