Try
adjusting the alerting thresh hold. We had a similar problem with some of our
extranet
sites
dropping ICMP traffic and sending alerts when it was just a problem with latency
or congestion. We increased the alert threshhold to 3, and set the interval at
30 seconds. A device must miss three consecutive pings before an alert is
sent. It also depends on what you are trying to monitor. There is not a
lot you can do if you are trying to monitor across the internet, however on your
local network you should not see false positives, if so there are underlying
network problems. Our local devices almost never drop traffic. There are other
packages like Unicenter TNG, but the issue you describe sounds like it
won't be sloved by changing the monitoring software.
Ken Claussen MCSE CCNA CCA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ragu nandan
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 3:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Off the topic: Alerting softwareHi
We use a commercial software called Whatsup Gold ( http://ipswitch.com/Product/Whatsup) for monitoring our routers, unix and NT machines. It will notify the sys admins by pager/email/telephone if one of them were to go down ( I mean the machine). Offlate we are getting lots of false alarms etc. Wonder whether there is a more powerful, reliable commercial or freeware tool to do the same job. Our requirement will be to alert thro pager or cell. Thx in advance.
Ragu
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