[erlang-questions] Nested Supervisors

[Chris Wilson]

I'm looking for some examples on starting more than one level of supervisors
in a supervision tree.  Almost everything I've seen has been one supervisor
and many workers and I've not seen any documentation or examples on how I
might start multiple supervisors within one supervision tree.

I'm trying to build a structure similar to what is below, a simple
monitoring application to track events in a typical network environment
within a given site.  A site level supervisor handles N number of L3
networks and their workers and spawns N number of supervisors for VLANs in a
given MST instance.  This example is slightly contrived in that I "could"
flatten this structure out, but I'm looking to do other things with those
vlan workers and may go another level deeper.

                                      vlan_monitor_worker
                                     /
                       vlan801_sup
                     /
          net1_sup
         /           \
        /             \
                       net1_mon_worker
 Site_sup
                       net2_mon_worker
        \             /
         \           /
          net2_sup
                     \
                      vlan802_sup
                                   \
                                    vlan_monitor_worker

Thanks in advance for any guidance.

-Chris
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