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October 4th, 2018 05:00

Partition Down Alert

When does Smarts IP generate PARTITION DOWN and DEVICE DOWN alarms. Can a Device down alert create partition down on other device ?

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October 15th, 2018 00:00

Hi pushpen,

A Partition is based on the discovered topology and is used to create a Root Cause. If topology is sufficient, RC will be a device. If not, RC may be the PartitionDown when all of the Partition Components are not reachable anymore.

E.g. in a partition with two directly connected devices, Smarts may not determine which of them is RC if both are Down and creates a PartitionDown as RC.

If a device is modeled in the topology, there must be a path in the actual network that connects the device to the management station.
see also Chapter 'Partition' in 'IP COncept Guide'

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