Configuring Dependencies

Dependencies determine the health/availability of a Monitor Group or Monitors. They consist of the dependent parameters of the Monitor based on which the severity of the health and availability are determined.

By configuring dependencies, you can specify whether the health or availability depends on all or few dependencies. The severity is also determined by order of severity which is given below:

1. Critical

2. Warning

3. Clear

For example, If there are 9 dependencies in a Monitor Group where three are critical, three are warning, and three are clear and the severity of Health of Monitor Group is based on any three selected dependencies, then the severity will be Critical as per the order of severity.

Configuring Dependencies

To configure dependencies for the Monitor or Monitor Group, do the following steps:

1. Select the Home tab that lists all the Monitor Groups.

2. Click on the Monitor Group that lists the Monitor.

3. Click on the Configure Alert icon of the respective Monitor. This opens the Configure Alert screen.

4. Choose Health or Availability from the combo box. The dependent attributes will be shown in the list box under dependencies.

5. Select and move the required attributes from the left box to the right box using >> button. By default, all the dependencies for the attributes of the monitors are added in the right box. You can also remove the default settings using the Action / Alert Settings option.

6. Specify whether the rule for determining the severity for health or availability.
   
   Depends on all selected parameters: The severity of health depends on the severity of all the selected parameters.
   Depends on any "n" selected parameters: The severity of health depends on only 'n' selected parameters. The number of parameter, n has to be selected from the combo box.
    

7. Click Save All to complete configuring dependencies.