Resource Status 'Flag' inherited from Children

Hi Kimo,

Thanks for submitting this idea.

Im not sure the behavior you described should be part of the product. It sounds like something relevant for a specific implementation.

Isnt it possible to have some custom code that iterates on the sub resources, checks their status, and sets the status of the root accordingly, according to your desired logic?

Regards

Ariel

Ariel,

Yes I can iterate the children and based on that set the flag at the top level.

My issue is that if the resource is shared between reservations, if I set the flag because of ports in one, that same flag is raised for the parent as a whole. So any other reservation, er active sandbox, will now have the same flag - even though non of its children are the actual problem.

Boiled down, we are checking for operational status on a Port by Port basis for complex topologies, prior to executing desired testing. Ideally any additional automation will validate status of resources prior to executing, which could lead to other sandboxes being hit unintentionally.

I guess really the ask isn't that the Root/Parent's status is changed by its children, rather that if the Graphic shows on the Canvas is determined by Children.

Hi Kimo,

The SetLiveStatus API gives you full power to set the status of the parent, and the status of each sub resource specifically. The status of the parent you have set will be shown on the canvas, and the status of the children is shown in the list view, or in the inventory.

From what I understood from your last posts, this should do the work. If not, please explain what logic you think is missing from the product, and why this logic doesnt belong in custom code.

Thanks

Ariel

@Ariel Benary

Yes I can set the Flag for the Parent, but that's not what we want. We want the flag in the canvas to show based on status of the children in the active reservation, not the top level resources status as set in the system.

Example, I have a Switch (Chassis, Blade, Port). - for simplicity's sake, it's a 1U item, so 1 Chassis & 0 Blades, 24 ports

Reservation 1 has ports 1-4 already running

Reservation 2 has ports 8-12, starts up, and the Setup Orchestration runs a health check on the ports. It sees that port 9 is showing down/down. The automation should flag that port as 'Error'. But if you do that, the graphical flag does NOT show on the canvas (Because it only shows the current status of the top most unit). So If I were to set the Top Most item (the Parent) to Error, that error is for Reservation #2, but Reservation #1 now also sees the same flag.

That is the behavior I don't want to see.

The Error is on a specific port, I'd like the canvas to represent the aggregate status of everything below the Avatar that is seen at the top most level.

If I flag the port that is the issue, I want that seen on the canvas, not just the 'Structure' side bar.

Thanks for the clarification Kimo. Changing status to active so people can vote for it.