Chapter 12: Managing Groups and Dependencies
1. Click
Start > All Programs > SolarWinds Orion > Orion Web Console
.
2. Click
Settings
in the top right of the web console, and then click
Manage
Groups
in the Node and Group Management grouping of the Orion
Website Administration page.
3. Check the group you want to edit, and then click
Edit Properties
.
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 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 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 Orion 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 Orion NPM these child interfaces display as Unreachable because
their parent node is reporting as down.
Likewise, Orion 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
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