I'm trying to achieve something specific using Host Monitor but I have no idea if it's possible or not. Hopefully some kind soul on here might be able to give me a clue.
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We have a complex Citrix environment which we would like to be able to give an 'overall' SLA report for.
My original idea was to make tests for each of the elements of the system that may affect the uptime of the system overall. I could then build the dependency hierarchy using the dependency section of the host monitor test and this would ultimately mean that we could just report on the top-level test and this should give us an overview of the uptime.
Unfortunately what actually seems to happen is that if a dependent test goes 'bad' then the parent test just doesn't run until it goes 'good' again. What this means is that the very top level test thinks we have 100% uptime when in fact we have had periods of downtime lower down the structure. They just don't get picked up because the top level test doesn't run.
I'm not sure i've explained this very well - but hopefully you get the idea. If not then please let me know and i'll try to give a better explanation.
Thanks
Pete