Situation description: have a number of hosts - some behind VPN. Zenoss is 
monitoring hosts and services etc.  Every time the VPN goes down (and it 
happens occasionally because of a buggy VPN solution) I get 40+ messages for 
ALL hosts and services behind VPN. Very annoying, since I forward the messages 
to my phone as SMS-es! 

Now I recall from the days of playing with Nagios that there could be defined 
relations like "A depends on B", which meant that if B fails, then it is 
obvious, that A cannot be functional and there was no extra message for things 
behind B. So as to the above example, I'd define the VPN gw as the upstream 
dependency for the hosts behind VPN and then would get only messages for it 
going down when it happens. But NOT for every host/service behind VPN.

Does something like this exist in Zenoss? 
If not, could it be made to be a feature, please? :)
Or, if dependencies/hierarcies is too big a bite, could there be a way of 
summarizing messages when forwarding? Something like "host down, 10 services on 
it too"?




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