Thanks so much for this suggestion, and thanks Chris for your pointing out what I should have looked into before posting....
This is great, choices!
cheers, Phil
On 3/31/2011 at 2:33 AM, in message <85108204A570E341A517A744DA59C41E05E71D9543 at EXITS712.its.iastate.edu>, "Dugan, Darin D [EIT]" <dddugan at iastate.edu> wrote: Phil, In addition to the 'depends' tag as suggested by Chris Morris, you may also consider the 'route' tag. I find it simpler to use for wan sites, though the behavior is somewhat different. Whereas depends will make dependent tests go clear, route makes conn tests go yellow with a message that it is down because device ABC is down. Something like:
1.2.3.4 wan_router # conn 1.2.3.5 site_router # conn route:wan_router 1.2.3.6 site_switch # conn route:wan_router,site_router 1.2.3.7 print_server # conn ftp route:wan_router,site_router,site_switch
So if wan_router goes down the other three will go yellow and therefore not alert. And when a tech looks at the yellow status it will plainly state it is down because wan_router is down.
Cheers.