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.
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mnagel
Professor
Professor1 minute ago, Todd Theoret said:Thank you Stuart. Any chance there is a potential solution being developed which would allow....manually tagging....devices?
So this has been an issue for us a lot -- everything was tossed into the topology umbrella for alert suppression with no easy way to manually create dependencies. There are many topologies that are simply not discoverable, like multipoint/mesh WAN topologies and really anything not handled by topology sources.
The good news is that some kind support tech provided me a Manual_Topology module that linked various devices manually that eluded auto-discovery. The bad news is it is awkward and leverages hardcoded device names and MAC addresses. But, it is possible. IMO the UI and/or API should be extended to support manual links. It is a last resort of course, but there are common cases where it is the only resort.
