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Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
For another example, the router dependency on the firewall is read as, "only poll the firewall if
the switch is down." If a break in communication takes place between the router and the
firewall, the switch changes to the Down state because it is Down dependent on the firewall.
If the switch goes down, the state of the servers changes to Unknown, because they are Up
dependent on the switch. Then, since the switch is down, the firewall is polled and changes
to the Down state. After the firewall is considered down, the router is polled.
Down dependencies are useful in showing the break position in a chain of machines. If the
chain is not broken at any point, the machines in the chain are not polled and are assumed
up.
Setting Dependencies
There are two ways to set dependencies in WhatsUp Gold:
Using Device Properties
Using the Map View
To set dependencies in the Device Properties:
1 Go to the properties for a device:
On the console, from Device View, double-click a device.
On the web interface, click the Devices tab, then double-click a device. The Device
Status Dashboard for that device appears. Click the Properties button. The Device
Properties dialog appears.
2 Click Polling. The Polling, Maintenance, and Dependencies dialog appears.
3 Click either the Up Dependency... or the Down Dependency... button to bring up
the appropriate Device Dependencies dialog, and to configure the up or down
dependency.
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