Dependencies or Parent/Child Relationships
Allow devices to be dependent on one another. If a router goes down, the switch behind it will most likely go down or have an error as well.
Forum Discussion
I'm happy to say this is on our road map. I don't know much - in terms of how we'll configure it, the visuals, user experience, or timeline - but it will be one of the larger projects we focus on this year. Keep the requests coming - especially any specifics in terms of which problems a feature like this may solve!
This is great news. From my part, I would like to see
- 1. Automatic network topology discovery, i.e., Logicmonitor would automatically scan the network and discover how devices are connected together and with what protocols. The information is partly there by just running nmap between every host.
- 2. Decent visualisation of the network topology, where you can zoom in on different parts of the network and navigate to a device's datssource easily
- 3. Decent management from the network topology visualisation, where you can click/search servers and say things like "everything connected to this machine by one node is now going into scheduled down time". I'm thinking regular expression matching would be really powerful in combination with this.
