Managing Groups and Dependencies
4.
Expand Advanced, and then select a Status rollup mode, as follows:
a. If you want the group to roll up the worst status of the group
members, select Show Worst Status.
b. If you want the group to roll up the best status of the group
members, select Show Best Status.
c. If you want the group to display a warning status if the group
members have a mixture of different statuses, select Mixed Status
shows warning.
5. Click Submit.
Managing Dependencies
Dependencies in Orion Platform allow you to account for topological constraints on
your network. These constraints may be either the result of the design of a specific
device, as in the case of interfaces on a switch or router, or the result of the physical
architecture of your network itself. Orion Platform offers an Unreachable status to
account for the case when a device may appear to be down when its status is actually
indeterminate, due to another device being down or unresponsive.
For example, in the case of a typical switch monitored by SolarWinds NPM, when the
switch itself goes down or becomes unresponsive, all interfaces on the switch will
also be unresponsive, even though they may functioning perfectly well. By default, in
SolarWinds NPM these child interfaces display as Unreachable because their parent
node is reporting as down.
Likewise, Orion Platform also makes it possible to define dependencies among
distinct devices, as in the case of a subnet of devices on your network that depends
on a single WAN link to connect with the rest of your network. In this case, if you have
defined a group consisting of the devices in this dependent subnet, you can then
define a dependency where the dependent subnet is a child group to the parent
router that is serving as the WAN link to the rest of your network. For more
information about groups, see "Managing Groups"
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