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Dependencies - Do Child Groups Include Node Interfaces and Apps automagically?

Afternoon Thwackers,

Quick question around dependencies. If I have the setup below:

Parent Group, containing two nodes (the logical entry point to that site network)
Child group, containing all the other nodes at that site

Does Orion include also any interfaces and application templates/components on the children in the dependency,or should we be creating 'Child Interfaces' and 'Child Application' groups to go along with the nodes?

Just scratching my head a bit at the theorycraft of the above, so if you could lend me the benefit of your experience I would appreciate it!

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adatole

Unless I am DRASTICALLY overlooking something, child elements (interfaces, disks, hardware, among other things) are, in fact, automatically treated as "children" of the node.

So if a Node goes down, you won't get alerts on the interfaces, disks, etc, of that node. Applications are a different story. I'm asking aLTeReGo‌ to chime in on that one.

However, for the elements I've named, you don't have to explicitly create child groups for those. The nodes status will take care of things.If it is "unreachable" (because the parent is down) then the rest of those objects will be unreachable as well.

AFAIK

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cjfranca

I think better

"Does Orion include also any interfaces and application templates/components on the children in the dependency,or should we be creating 'Child Interfaces' and 'Child Application' groups to go along with the nodes?"

I understand that will be more organized.

adatole

Unless I am DRASTICALLY overlooking something, child elements (interfaces, disks, hardware, among other things) are, in fact, automatically treated as "children" of the node.

So if a Node goes down, you won't get alerts on the interfaces, disks, etc, of that node. Applications are a different story. I'm asking aLTeReGo‌ to chime in on that one.

AFAIK

silverbacksays

Cheers adatole‌

aLTeReGo

Application relationships with nodes are an implicit dependency, no different than interfaces or volumes. If the node is down, any applications associated with that node will go into an unreachable state. I hope that answers your question.

rschroeder

Yes, they do.

silverbacksays

Thanks guys for all the responses, much appreciated! I marked Leon's response as correct, as he got in there first. Maybe next time, aLT

aLTeReGo

That's alright. adatole‌ needs all the help he can get