Is Network Topology Mapper freely available with HCO?

GrahamV

Good day,I'm kinda new to HCO so please bear with me with some simple questions.

To what degree does HCO automatically build a network topology?

Would one need to purchase Network Topology Mapper in order to have this kind of capability? 

Is the concept of "dependencies" the only basic correlation capability in HCO?

Please feel free to add anything else that may be related to these matters.

jm_sysadmin

You do not need Network Topology Mapper. It hasn't been updated in years and won't help you in Orion. It does figure out topology using routing tables and Cisco discovery protocol, any maybe more that I am not aware of. Dependencies are the term for things that related. Topology is one type and can lead to devices that are unreachable instead of down. That's good for knowing the router went down, and you can't check the stuff behind it at an offsite. But an interface is dependent on the device its in, an Application might be dependent on the node, or other monitored applications.