Mixing aggregation and causes

A useful feature of VMware Smart Assurance NOTIF is the ability to relate notifications both on the aggregation level and the causes relationship level. The aggregate notification function allows you to create an independent notification and then roll other notifications under its display; the CausedBy relationship allows notifications from other servers to then be rolled under the aggregate notification. The result is that only the aggregate notification is displayed as the root cause for notifications coming from multiple servers.