We use Slack extensively and integration would be useful.
-kevin
> On Apr 30, 2015, at 5:10 AM, dirk wrote:
>
> Just wanted to check if there is anyone already using SLACK and if some
> type of SLACK integration with Servers Alive would be usefull.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dirk Bulinckx
> Servers A
mic that ties into the existing system of
> alerts, but that can be customized by the engineer monitoring...
>
>
> David Bruck
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>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kevin Stone
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their screen
> with a sound, pop-up, color change of icon or something, that would be
> tremendous and IMing wouldn't be necessary.
>
>
> David Bruck
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> -Original Message-
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2013 is the current version and REST is so much easier than MS API's so that
would be the logical choice. Not a huge fan of most MS enterprise products but
Lync has been very good.
I look forward to seeing IF this happens...
-kevin
> On Dec 7, 2013, at 6:45 AM, "Dirk Bulinckx" wrote:
>
> IF
Lync 2013
-kevin
> On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Dirk Bulinckx wrote:
>
> For those of you who wanted to have (and still want :-)) Lync as
> alerting method in SAcould you tell me what version of Lync you're
> using and/or if you plan to migrate to a newer version of Lync?
>
>
>
> --
>
Same here, we use Lync internally but XMPP for most other things.
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Hanson, Brett mailto:brett.han...@agrium.com)> wrote:
We use XMPP (Jabber), but would prefer to use Microsoft Lync if we could.
Regards,
Brett
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Functionally, to an admin, there isn't much difference. I would think that
for you using separate tables will provide flexiblity in the future for any
needed changes.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Dirk Bulinckx mailto:d...@woodstone.nu)> wrote:
Some time ago it seemed to be a hot-topic
It's been a while but my strategy was similar. There also were registry
settings to decrease the delay between checks. Another thing to consider is
monitoring top level items and skipping lower level monitors if they are
healthy. A good example is a web server. If the URL is ok you don't need
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It's not a COM check idea but this made me wonder about creating
pre-configured(minus hostname or IP address) monitor groups for generic/common
items. APC is a good one, performance counters and services for Exchange or
SQL server, Cisco OIDs, etc.
Other monitoring tools call these Manageme
I've installed it on VMs(windows 2003 on VMware ESX) without any issues.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Carroll, Andrew mailto:andy.carr...@intergraph.com)> wrote:
Guys,
I am being asked if it would be possible to Virtualise our Servers Alive
installation for an on-going system wide u
Google is the way I sync mine. All my devices and Outlook sync to my Google
Apps calendar. As Jason said the tools available are either free or
inexpensive and just about everything has an option to sync with Google.
-Kevin
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Jason Passow mailto:jas...@mwsco.com)
Sending to different accounts would be my preference.
-kevin
On Nov 23, 2011, at 4:30 AM, "Dirk Bulinckx" wrote:
> We're currently working on a Twitter alert for Servers Alive.
> We would like to know from those of you who would like to use/have this, would
> you prefer a SETUP with a username
It's been a long time since I looked at the external com checks...
If the result is returned to SA as a parameter you could potentially write a
batch file to run with each cycle the inserts the value into an RRD.
-Kevin
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Hanson, Brett mailto:brett.han...@agriu
samib file is located in C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Woodstone\Servers Alive\saMIB.db (on XP
that is)
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To:
I just tested and have the same issue. It's true with other MIBs that
depend on items that already exist in the MIB database. I tried adding
rfc1213.mib and was it failed due to a dependency in rfc1155.mib which already
exists in the database.
Dirk, should we be able to see the existing MIBs
I'd move from ICQ unless you have a specific need/user for it. AIM, as former
AOL employee, is a great product being slowly killed in the search for
corporate profitability.
The MSN API, while poorly documented, has at least been stable.
I've been focusing our internal IM on Jabber/XMPP si
I've used AIM previously but MSN and XMPP are my current choices.
-kevin
On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:15 PM, "Dirk" wrote:
> Currently in Servers Alive we have several types of Instant Messaging alerts:
>* MSN
>* ICQ
>* AIM
>* XMPP
>
> I would like to know if all of them are still use
I looked at PagerDuty a few months ago but never had a real need to implement
it. It should handle #1. In SA you can set multiple alerts based on the
number of down events, that would handle the "time limit" portion but not the
"no response".
#2 is tough. The trick really is getting the e
:
Can you elaborate? A what fields would that require?
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I would like to add SNMP
I'm not a fan of the database either. I see the push for it but personally
don't see the additional complexity providing any advantage. How do you
back up the configs? Right now it's as easy as a copy. What about
database/table maintenance?
The last time it was brought up I hoped it would be
I would like to add SNMP trap and syslog options for sending the keepalive in
addition to email.
-Kevin
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Dirk Bulinckx mailto:d...@woodstone.nu)> wrote:
Often we get questions on what will be next in Servers Alive...so I'll give
you
a little round-up on things tha
yes, many places won't let anything but https in or out.
-Kevin
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Dirk Bulinckx mailto:d...@woodstone.nu)> wrote:
We would like to know if there is any interest in have HTTPS instead HTTP access
for the built-in web server.
dirk
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I can't get to the beta site from Verizon FIOS in the US. Is anyone else
having a similar issue?
-kevin
On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:15 AM, "Dirk Bulinckx" mailto:d...@woodstone.nu)> wrote:
Feature addedâ¦..
http://beta.woodstone.nu (http://beta.woodstone.nu)
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Did you copy over the .grp file from the program files\salive directory?
-Kevin
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jason Passow mailto:jas...@mwsco.com)> wrote:
I moved my installation of Servers alive to a new Windows XP machine and My
template no longer works. wn_group: Unkown_group down, Unkown
Very useful!
-kevin
On Feb 4, 2011, at 8:07 AM, "Dirk Bulinckx" wrote:
> Hi list,
>
>
> Currently within the alerts options it's possible to execute a command, that
> command is then execute on the system running Servers Alive.
> We're evaluating if there is a need to have a "execute command"
\\server\cif_share (file://server/cif_share) worked for me on a BlueArc NAS
system. I didn't need to map the drive to a server just put the share name
in the check config with the proper credentials. I would guess the vFiler is
similar.
For us this was a case of SA, once again, solving an
When you say remote computer I'm assuming you must traverse a firewall to reach
it.
My Windows is a bit rusty but that should be RPC traffic and on port 135.
This is a pretty well known attack point so be very careful about opening this.
-kevin
On Dec 22, 2009, at 6:10 PM, "Bill Tkach" ma
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and how is this being confirmed? Are y
t its up.
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Ho
in fact its up.
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How do you know it's a false positive?
-Kevin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Griffin, Jim mailto:jgrif...@kepner-tregoe.com)> wrote:
That is my problem as well. Too many false positives.
Im running Windows Server 2000 Service Pack 4. Servers Alive version
6.1.2247.
This ale
That's how i've done it the past.
-kevin
On Dec 6, 2009, at 3:45 PM, "Dirk Bulinckx" wrote:
> Isn't that already something you can do with the ALERTS?
> You can have several alerts per entry and each alert can have its
> own WHEN rule
> and ofcourse its WHAT (mail/pager/... and also the recip
Other tools provide the ability to alet on the "group" level. If all of your
links are in the group and 2 of 3 are down it would alert. You could also have
alerts on the individual links.
Just an option... I don't have any idea how hard it would be to implement or
if it meets your needs.
db backend (instead of flat-file)
Can this be optional? Enterprise only? In many installations I would not want
or need the added complexity of a database.
-kevin
On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:35 PM, "Dirk Bulinckx" mailto:d...@woodstone.nu)> wrote:
db backend (instead of flat-file)
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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
The "excellent" support you seem to want tends to cost more than you have paid.
This is not a knock against Woodstone or Dirk but Servers Alive is a low cost
product from a small company. I'm sure Woodstone could support you via
phone if that is your preference. However, given the time differ
SA can do SNMP monitoring. What are you trying to accomplish?
-Kevin
Carroll, Andrew wrote:
> Forum Members, (apologies up front for an off topic post)
>
> I use Compaq / HP Insight Manager but I am not happy with the
> functionality I get and I am considering other SNMP based monitoring to
> wo
Looking at the mib detail from Dell(
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/2.2/en/SNMP/snmpc4.h
tm ) it does indicate that this would be a rollup status entry.
-Kevin
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was done n the build ..
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Yes, it does not run natively as a
Yes, it does not run natively as a service. It is on the developers list
but progress isn't exactly swift with Mercury.
-Kevin
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I have a similar setup with the licensed and free versions. I have also
enabled the keepalive email from both servers.
-Kevin
Steve Davis wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Im looking for some tips on how to check servers alive itself is
> actually running properly.
>
> Currently I have my main licen
Since you're a SA user I'll assume this is for Windows. Have you looked
at Kiwi CatTools? It's free for 5 devices, inexpensive for more. I
used Perl and Expect on Windows and Unix in the past to do this.
-Kevin
Michael Shook wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a good utility that will allow the
> Frank Brower
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I would go with the tags as they are not limited in number, self
describing, and would provide more flexibility.
-Kevin
Dirk Bulinckx wrote:
> Currently within the alerts you can use the % parameters. They are "limited"
> to
> one-char after the %, which means that basicly we have
> %0 .
Obviously I'm not Dirk but I'm not sure how it could be done with the
number of dll's installed and the amount of information placed in the
registry. I'd think the time it would take to re-architect SA for this
would be excessive.
Wouldn't a full blown version on a laptop be easier? You'd hav
That's where I stand now. I have to undo/redo much of the packet
filtering on the system before I can talk to the agent. Locally it works.
-Kevin
Dirk Bulinckx wrote:
> Can you from the *nix system telnet to port 20012 to itself (using
> it's own IP, not 127.0.0.1)?
> If that is not working
Downloaded and installing now...
-Kevin
Dirk Bulinckx wrote:
> Just curious to hear if someone already tested
>
>
> Dirk Bulinckx.
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> Dirk Bulinckx
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You're essentially asking Woodstone to document the host file and
publish that.
I started working on something like that a few years back. I only did
it with ping and got it working. The html form would add the required
entries to the host file and we would restart SA the next morning. Thi
Me either. I think Dirk has finally satisfied all our monitoring needs
and can bask in his success... ;-)
-Kevin
Jason Passow wrote:
> It seems I have not received messages for 3 days.
>
>
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If you use auto-respon
This is great news! It takes SA to another level of functionality. I'm
looking forward to testing and using the agents.
-Kevin
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CPU and mem utilisation to what *nix commands can I compare that?
>
>
>
> Dirk Bulinckx.
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ou say Linux, what distribution of Linix?
>
>
> Dirk Bulinckx.
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> Subject
We typically are looking for file system, cpu, and memory utilization,
and running processes. Linux has the widest useage, while my personal
preference is for OpenBSD.
Licensing is always the sticky part. A site license would seem to be
the best way to minimize your revenue. :-) If you pric
Typing help at the prompt is useful. ;-) Most, if not all, of the listed
commands are self-explaining.
-Kevin
Dirk Bulinckx wrote:
> Most of them are in the doc.
> But unfortunatly the doc isn't 100% complete :-(
>
> Dirk Bulinckx.
>
>
> --
Whatever happened to the master/slave concept from a while back? Is
that being pushed off in favor of the agent?
-Kevin
Dirk Bulinckx wrote:
> There are several options:
> * using a instance of Servers Alive on the remote site and having
> that one send out the alerts to you
>
> * we
Great to see you back!
-Kevin
Mark Bradshaw wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to re-introduce myself. I used to be an active member of
> this group but dropped out when my job took me out of the IT realm.
> Im glad to see a few names I recognize still around. If I havent yet
> met you,
When I download that file it is only 602k. Is that correct?
-Kevin
Dirk Bulinckx wrote:
> We did see an issue with the maintenance logging and that is fixed in
> the version that is currently on
> http://beta.woodstone.nu/soft/temp/serversalive.61 (rename to .EXE)
>
> Dirk Bulinckx.
>
>
> -
I use syslog extensively and the registered version of Kiwi Syslog in
the way to go on Windows. Diskspace requirements are actually pretty
low as the registered version of Kiwi will compress the files for you
when they are rotated. It sets up easily, is inexpensive, and has too
many features
Title: New Feature fo v7(?)
My last installation(before threading and tweaking) had a
17 minute cycle time. Even the threaded, tweaked and pared down version
was 8 minutes. The delay will vary greatly by installation.
Your situation is, hopefully, a rare one and probably
should be addr
>
> I am running it like this: " mstsc /CONSOLE"
>
> That look right?
>
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who logs on.
>
>
> Dirk Bulinckx.
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er 05, 2006 9:51 PM
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> Subject: RE: [SA-list] Running as service but fails to check.
>
> Ok, I got that, but how does that effect how the system service runs?
> Are you saying I have to log in as 'system' to manipulate the settings
> that
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>
> How are you access
How are you accessing the system? Are you using Terminal Services at
all? If yes, then the answer is potentially yes.
-Kevin
Jason Mohr wrote:
>
> Yes that is set. If run by a normal user everything checks fine. It is
> almost as if the system is using a different profile or something. Is
> t
I think the webpage/textfile/database would be useful for a lot of
reasons beyond SA. I did a quick search and didn't find any existing
list that maintains the current version numbers for AV software.
-Kevin
Dirk Bulinckx wrote:
> Others are seeing this as something usefull?
>
>
> Dirk Bul
That may be true but I don't see anyone beating down Novell's door to
convert to Netware from their existing NOS. Novell's financial and
management situation is still shaky at best. It's going to take a lot
for them to regain mindshare and marketshare.
-Kevin
Julian Carr wrote:
> Shhh... don
That feature is in beta...
-Kevin
David Wheeler wrote:
> Does anyone know if servers alive can "parallelize checks"?
>
> IE. Run multiple checks at the same time rather than sequentially?
>
> The information contained in t
The MIB is the ALTIGA-HARDWARE-STATS-MIB. You can download it here:
ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/v2/ALTIGA-HARDWARE-STATS-MIB.my
Then you can use Getif( http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/getif.htm) to
browse the tree and find the right entry. It looks like the device has
two temp sensors listed a
I use Host IDs to do just that - id a host. Each host gets a unique ID
and all checks for that host use the same ID. This becomes very useful
when using the interchange file to generate reports. I guess you could
have SA check to make sure each first level check has a unique host ID
but I'm n
Never on any of the systems I have run, with many, many checks. One thing
to check is that you are not running SA as a service and accessing the
application version via terminal services. This can make it seem like
things are changing since you are not modifying the right one. If you are
using T
The first thing I notice is that you're not comparing the same data. A
14 minute interval and a 2 minute interval will provide dramatically
different results particularly with something as bursty as a CPU.
-Kevin
Casimir Couvillion wrote:
> I am currently evaluating Servers Alive and trying t
I had those symptoms briefly when I first moved to
Win2003. I'll check my notes. One thing that comes to mind is to
check for leading spaces, at one time one of the versions was putting leading
spaces in the username field. I run many of the betas so that
may never have been an issue wi
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My work system, which has had this problem for a while, still gives this
error when upgrading.
-Kevin
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] Servers Alive v5.1 Install Error
Just re-did an upgrade from v4 to v5 and then to v5.1 without any issue...
Dirk.
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I was getting this on one machine with the beta releases. When I am in the
office tomorrow I will try it there.
My two test machines at home upgraded with no issues.
-Kevin
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There are a couple of these that I've heard of in the unix world, nothing
for Windows. I can definitely see a need in the small to midsize market
where they are relying on consumer grade network hardware like Netgear and
Linksys. Limiting just P2P traffic on our network was a huge bandwidth
saving
Yes, your switches will get pinged with each
group. This may not be as bad as it sounds. On many network devices
responding to ICMP(Ping) is a low priority event and the number of packets is
tiny anyway.
I've set up functional groups for our setup, an example is
below, and only have de
I don't know how to check for the locked desktop but...
You could run something via the Scheduler or use something like PsExec(part
of the PsTools package) from SysInternals( http://www.sysinternals.com ) or
the Remote Command service from the Windows Resource kit.
-Kevin
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You may, if your organization/comfort level allows it,
want to upgrade to the latest "beta". There have been a number of
performance improvements in the interim releases. Don't let the beta tag
fool you, the releases are stable and reliable.
Do you have a lot of down checks each cycle or
The server is more than enough. I'm running a single
CPU 3Ghz with 1gb for 1602 total checks(~950 currently active).
-Kevin
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BruceSent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:06 PMTo:
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Which version are you running(5.x.), how many checks,
and what are the server specs(CPU and RAM). That setting has been the most
dramatic decrease in cycle times for my installations.
-Kevin
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BruceSent: Tuesday
There are Apache ASP modules but I don't know if they work
with v2. I thought about porting them to PHP but decided since
SA is a Windows app most of the usage would be IIS.
-Kevin
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BulinckxSent: Friday, November 11, 200
Nothing I've seen. I started working on a PHP/MYSQL system to create
updated hostfiles but since you cannot update the system without a
reload/restart it was not a good solution.
-Kevin
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Check the list archives. A few were posted recently
and other links have been posted in the past.
-Kevin
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MatthewSent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:23 AMTo:
salive@woodstone.nuSubject: [SA-list] HTML
Templates
Does
I'm not Dirk but...The enterprise edition will allow you to
have 5000 checks(elements) total per installed copy. I have one licensed
copy doing about 1600 checks on about 110 servers and 300 network
devices.
-Kevin
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E
That's why my subscription(continuous since the first
issue) will lapse next month. Advertisers get mentions, advertisers get
articles, and advertisers get awards. Everyone else gets nothing.
It's too expensive for what ends up being marketing
material.
-Kevin
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'salive@woodstone.nu'Subject: RE: [SA-list] User BBS for "How-To"
info....
Now that is a pukkah idea
WHEN WHEN WHEN
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ZiaSent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:21 AMTo:
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info
Now that is a pukkah idea
WHEN WHEN WHEN
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anwar,
ZiaSent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:21 AMTo:
'salive@woodstone.nu'Subject: RE: [SA-list] User BBS for "How-To"
info
Now
that is a pukkah idea
WHEN
I've thought a more generic how-to forum for monitoring
tools(mostly intergrating them with SA) and have it set up but never
announced. I'm sure there's interest...
-Kevin
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael D.
ShookSent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:0
checks is the only answer?
I will also check the registry setting to see if that helps
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Kevin Stone
Sent: 08 September 2005 17:04
To: salive@woodstone.nu
Subject: RE: [SA-list] optimizing ServersAlive
It
It sure does. I'm at 1600+ and a full cycle(not everything is checked each
cycle) is 12 minutes.
Definitely reduce the time between checks, it makes a huge difference. Look
at non-critical items that do not need to be checked each cycle(disk space,
printer page counts, etc. I check these once an
Check the archives. This thread may be a good
start: http://archive.serversalive.com/retrievemsg.asp?ID=12058
-Kevin
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Rowland,DavidSent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:29
AMTo: salive@woodstone.nuSubject: [SA-list] Servers Al
Title: One monitoring server or more?
This will make a HUGE difference in your cycle time and is
a must if you are running more than a couple of hundred
checks.
Other things that can help(IF you have large numbers
of Downs) is to reduce the timeout. It defaults to 5 seconds, most LAN
che
Great idea!
-Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Mitchell, Clark
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:16 PM
To: salive@woodstone.nu
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Alert when changed to maintenance
Provided you are logging status changes into a data
Are you starting the OID with a "."? ( for example -
.1.3.1.6.1.4.1.674.10893.1.1.130.4.1.4.3)
-Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of JEFF SPRINGER
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:44 PM
To: salive@woodstone.nu
Subject: [SA-list] SNMP erro
That would be a lot of work and would require a good deal of work on the
part of the end user. Beyond several "standard" mibs most of the
information is vendor and many times device specific. You would have to
track down the necessary mibs plus any dependencies before you could do the
walk.
Then
I think this would be good functionality for the "agent" that has been
discussed as well. It could be installed and then report back checks that
could be added to the SA host. I'm sure this is a lot more work than it
sounds, as it always is.
What would be reported back, particularly Win32 service
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