A forum search would have found:
http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=7939&highlight=depend
http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=8184&highlight=depend
http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=8275&highlight=depend
...
This discusses the layer 3 dependencies Zenoss does have, and provides a 
tool to help debug it:
http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=6761
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James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University



kaidol wrote, On 1/30/2009 8:11 AM:
> 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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