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We have approximately 250 switches(nodes) that have other switches that are upstream from them. 

If we would like to verify an upstream switch is up before considering a switch to be down do we need to create 250 event processing rules that check a situation status on the upstream switch? 

Is it better to create one event processing rule that has a filter script with basically 250 if statements to check the situation status?

Is there a better way to manage dependencies?  At this point we only care about pinging switches to see if they are up or down.

Thanks for any help.

If the switches provide topological information (LLDP, STP MIB, etc.), NetXMS will automatically correlate event, and create an alarm only for the source event generating the outage.

Thank you.  I will work on it from that angle.