[SA-list] SAlive Process checking Locally?

[Kevin A Sesock/cis/evp/Okstate]

Okay, here goes. This will probably appear as kinda strange:

I'm attempting to keep track of the Processes/Services on a Win2K SP3 box, by running Servers Alive locally. In version 3, I never really had a lot of trouble with this (except the usual problems when running as a service). Now, in Version 4, it doesn't matter if I run as a service or run as a local user with Administrator rights, I'm still getting errors in process and service checking (don't need perfmon checking, so I haven't tried it). Interestingly enough, it seems to be a problem of the actual hostname. I'm quite aware with us running Dynamic DNS, it's possible that some funkiness is happening with the hostname of the box, but I seriously doubt it.

Oddly enough, when selecting the process I want to check in a new entry, the only way I can select it is if I don't enter the hostname in the proper field. I've tried everything else in there, including "localhost", "127.0.0.1", the IP address, fully qualified hostname, etc.

I've just installed the latest revision of 4, and I'm still getting this same problem. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? Or is version 4 pretty much supposed to be run on a host dedicated to doing nothing but checking other systems?

Kevin A. Sesock, A+, NET+, CNA, MCP
Deskside Computer Support Specialist
Student Disability Services
SLA Program
Computing Information Services
Oklahoma State University

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