An owner device is a “parent, or owner” of another monitored device that is dependent on the owner device. For example, when monitoring both an Internet router and a website, a router often is the “parent, or owner” of the website. So, if the Internet router goes down the website will also go down. Therefore, to prevent receiving multiple and redundant monitoring alerts from a dependent device (the website) because an owner device (the Internet router) goes down the user should choose Internet Router as an owner device to the website when setting up the website’s monitoring.

To set-up an Owner Device for a dependent device:

  1. First, set up monitoring for the “parent” Owner Device.
  2. Set up the dependent device.
  3. In the dependent device settings, under the Alerts tab, activate the Owner Device option and select the owner device.

Selecting the Owner Device within the “Owner Device” drop-down for the dependent device will make the Owner Device the “parent, or owner” of the dependent device.