Well as with a lot of things in the IT world, the answer is not
simple…infact "it depends" :-)
If you use IP addresses instead of hostnames you are sure that you're still
doing tests even if DNS/WINS/… are failing. But then again it might be
good to know when these are failing too….
And it
It does add a fair amount of delay when processing hundreds of entries at a
time. As a work-around we use DNS within servers alive heavily but then modify
the windows HOSTS file for the systems which we know will not change to provide
the performance we are looking for.
~Patrick
From
Dirk/Community,
In your tests throughout the years with SA, how expensive is it in terms of
Guest system resources (and best practices) is it to use Host DNS lookups as
opposed to using IP addressing for Host identification on checks?
Barry George
807 346-2546
IT Department
Dougall
Agreed!
-Original Message-
From: Barry George [mailto:bgeo...@dougallmedia.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:01 AM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive v7 - RRDTool - IIS
Thanks for providing a repository for this Dirk. I think it only helps
strength
Thanks for providing a repository for this Dirk. I think it only helps
strengthen an already great product!
Barry
-Original Message-
From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:d...@woodstone.nu]
Sent: March-29-12 9:46 AM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: [SA-list] Servers Alive v7 - RRDTool -
I would like to thank Lau for creating a document that explains how to configure
Servers Alive v7 together with RRDTool and to share his great template for it
too.
His great document can be viewed on http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/documents.php
Dirk Bulinckx.
Network Monitoring by Servers Aliv
