I was again looking at the big picture here with my SA hosts and seeing if I couldn't 
use grouping to assist in auto-html creation. Due to the fact that groups and 
dependancies don't get along together very well, I am unable to use groups at all 
because of the dependancies. This forces me to use custom ASP pages to group all the 
bits back together.

So I was thinking, (STOP snickering...) since SA tracks the dependancies in a variable 
separate from the GroupID, why try to mush both into the same display window in the 
interface? Since dependancies represent the PHYSICAL layout of the network, and groups 
represent the LOGICAL layout of the network, why not have 2 different views? 
Dependancies are only used during a check cycle, and Groups are only used during 
output, so I can not see any interaction between the two variables EXCEPT those 
related to needing to display them both at the same time.

Thus by having a dependancy view, I could be sure that I don't get 200 alerts when the 
primary router goes down, and by having a group view, I could get auto-html pages with 
logical grouping of devices.

Just a thought for V5.

Michael Shook
Technical Analyst
Saddle Creek Corporation
723 Joe Tamplin Industrial Blvd
Macon GA  31217
478 742 8740 ext. 105 (work)
478 256 9318 (mobile)
478 742 7917 (fax)
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http://www.saddlecrk.com

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