Are you currently using the %e variable in your alerts in order to determine the reason for the down? Are only 80% or 20% of the pings successful? Perhaps some other reason? Ping checks are the MOST reliable in my installation. I have two for all network links. One has a crazy high timeout to verify if the link is down. The second one has a shorter timeout to determine latency.
It wouldn't hurt to review how the timeout with a ping works since it has been a source of confusion in the past: A 5 second timeout with 5 pings is actually 1 second per ping. a 10 second timeout with 1 ping is one ping with timeout of ten seconds. A 4 second timeout with 2 packets is two pings with a timeout of 2 seconds each. Jason Passow Mississippi Welders Supply http://www.mwsco.com jas...@mwsco.com ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Heath Abbate [mailto:habb...@cafepress.com] To: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:sal...@woodstone.nu] Sent: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:15:19 -0500 Subject: RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive Flakey? Various types of alerts. Ping checks, disk space checks, service checks, *nix checks. 2 methods for verifying false alerts 1. Having another product monitor the same things â salive will bark, the other wonât. 2. Checking as soon as the alert is fired off. Just last night it claimed all our network devices were down. None of them were. I do have a few hundred checks. Maybe I am checking too often? Can Salive get flakey if its constantly checking? IE maybe there is some overlap in the next cycle starting before the previous is done? From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)] On Behalf Of Kevin Stone Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:56 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: Re: [SA-list] Servers Alive Flakey? I've been using it for years in several different jobs. It's never been flakey and even now when I have a full suite of HP Openview tools I still use it as the sanity check. What makes you believe these are false alerts? Some condition has occurred that triggered them. What type of monitor is it? -Kevin On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Heath Abbate <habb...@cafepress.com (mailto:habb...@cafepress.com)> wrote: Just curious if I am the only one. 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