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Layered/Inherited Dependancies

I've been hunting through documentation and forums and am unable to find an answer.

When Orion added dependancies can you create layered dependancies. Can I create a parent child relationship and then work my way down with that child being the parent of a different child and if the top parent goes down it will suppress alerts for everything below?

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mcbridea

Can you add a drawing so we can see the details?

phoenix

Please excuse my quick drawing for illustration purposes.

The boxes along the bottom are Orion Node Groups. The smaller circle above them is the router they connect through and I've set that up as a dependency. The box around all those routers is another group and the larger circle at the top shows the router for them. If the router at the top of the diagram were down, would the notifications be supressed for everything below due to two levels of dependancies configured?

mcbridea

Yes - That is supported. Just set up the group rollup carefully.

http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/Groupsanddependencies.pdf

phoenix

Could you expand on "Group Rollup"?

What sort of things could cause issues?