RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive Crashes when Performance Data gives error

Dirk, I have found that the check does not end after the 15 second timeout and I am unable to telnet into servers alive. The application is in a not responding state and the only way to get around it is to end task and restart Servers Alive. In essence it is not a full crash rather a 'freeze' o

[SA-list] Servers Alive Crashes when Performance Data gives error

Dirk, I have been experiencing problems with servers alive over the last couple of days when the performance counters give the following errors. It does not seem to crash every time probably 1 in 3 cycles. I am running Serversalive on a Win2K server with version 4.0.1453, the crash occurs when r

Re: [SA-list] looking for a change in file size monitor

Robert, I have a program that checks for a file being modified within the last x amount of time if that helps? Reg's Paul |-+--> | | "Robert Fernando | | | -ntlworld" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: [SA-list] Beta tetsers needed for COMTelnet

Michael, I would be interested in something like this, Regards Paul "Michael Shook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/12/2003 13:59 Please respond to salive                 To:        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        [SA-list] Beta tetsers

RE: [SA-list] Monitoring Veritas Backup Exec Jobs

You can use perfmon stats to alert when a backup job fails or aborts etc. The only problem with this is that in order to reset the counters the Backup Exec services need to be restarted. Paul |-+> | | "Dirk Bulinckx" | | |

RE: [SA-list] Port Connector

Dirk, I do not have a problem with the checks timing out. What I want to do is when the port connector successfully connects to a port, rather than disconnecting immediately it waits for x number of ms's before disconnecting. Regards Paul |-+> | |

[SA-list] Port Connector

Dirk, Is there any way of increasing the amount of time a port connector check stays connected the the remote system before it disconnects? Regards Paul __ The affairs, business and prope

RE: [SA-list] HTTPS Check

Dirk The url is:- https://extranet.federal-mogul.com/epopims/ Regards Paul |-+> | | "Dirk Bulinckx" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | u> | | | Sent by: | | |

RE: [SA-list] Monitoring Citrix Servers

I have been monitoring our citrix servers on port 1494 with the port connector check for over a year now and not seen any problems as from a servers alive point of view. I had noticed before employing the checks that when a citrix server is up for a long time that some citrix sessions do not sign

[SA-list] HTTPS Check

Dirk, I want to check a website that signs in with an url and then is connected through to another url once the user has been authenticated. I have tried to use servers alive in a few different combinations and use the password protected page part of servers alive. I cannot seem to get it to wor

[SA-list] Wish List - Multiple threads for servers alive

Dirk, I currently have 505 out of 1000 checks running on servers alive, a check cycle takes approx 10-15 mins to run with a 5 min delay between checks. As such it can be upto 30-35 mins before we see a service as being down. I have managed to shorten the check cycle by making some of the less cr

Re: [SA-list] PMR 88168,017,866 - LPSERVE Hanging

Dirk, We have been having problems with our LPSERVE application on our mainframe for some time, I believe that it is a bug in the application, but was wondering whether there is anything we can do about this in the short run. I could create a protocol, but do not know what data the LPR server wis

Re: [SA-list] Print of tree

Dirk, Yes it would be. Paul "Dirk Bulinckx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/08/03 11:33 Please respond to salive                 To:        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        [SA-list] Print of tree Is a print of the maintree (with all vis

RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive Stops Checking.

I can't put a username in my external checks. Paul |-+> | | "Dirk Bulinckx" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | u> | | | Sent by: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive Stops Checking.

Dirk, I have logged the server on and running servers alive as a program. It seems to stop during the perfmon checks of a windows 2000 server. Telnet is unavailable (ie it can connect, but cannot get any response.) I have currently put these in maintenance to see if it is just these checks? I

[SA-list] Servers Alive Stops Checking.

Dirk, I have had a funny one this morning. At around 05:00 Servers Alive stopped checking, servers alive itself was still running and had not failed. After some time and numerous restarts, I managed to get the checking to work again (Although it seems to stop 'mid' cycle) At approx 10:30 server

RE: [SA-list] Port Check causes server to crash

Dirk, Here's where my problem lies, The opposing server will automatically disconnect the user after say 30 seconds, which is the tidy way in which it disconnects, in the old version this worked fine. With the new disconnect it disconnects in a way where the application seems to be unable to aut

RE: [SA-list] Port Check causes server to crash

Dirk was there any changes between 4.0.1376 and 4.0.1453 to the TCP Protocol checks? Regards Paul "Dirk Bulinckx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/03 22:49 Please respond to salive                 To:        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:    

RE: [SA-list] Port Check causes server to crash

Dirk, Can the TCP protocol handle TN3270 emulation? Regards Paul __ The affairs, business and property of T&N Ltd are being managed by the Joint Administrators, S Freakley, J Gleave, and

[SA-list] Port Check causes server to crash

Dirk, My servers alive checks a port on a customers server to check that an application is running. Unfortunately since I upgraded to the new beta of servers alive it seems to crash their server after a certain period of time (although I have not pinned this down as they have complained about the

[SA-list] Global Add

Dirk, I want to add to all my checks (430 of) a new webpage as I have an alert page for our operators and wish to have a more detailed technical page for the support guys. I can do a global replace, but not a global add. Please can you advise the best course. Regards Paul _

Re: [SA-list] Servers Alive v4 released today

Dirk, Are the only differences between enterprise and standard the number of entries and the ODBC logging? Regards Paul "Dirk Bulinckx

[SA-list] Correction - Question about support

Dirk, Once V4 is released when will the support of V3 be revoked/Diminished? Regards Paul __ The affairs, business and property of T&N Ltd are being managed by the Joint Administrators,

[SA-list] Co

Dirk, Once V4 is released when will the support of V3 be revoked/Diminished? Regards Paul __ The affairs, business and property of T&N Ltd are being managed by the Joint Administrators,

RE: [SA-list] logfile monitoring

Dirk, Once V4 is released when will the support of V3 be revoked/Diminished? Regards Paul __ The affairs, business and property of T&N Ltd are being managed by the Joint Administrators,

RE: [SA-list] V4 perfmon problems

Dirk, I get this error when trying to modify a check.  I can remove all the details and still get the error. I get this when i click on the ... icon. I don't get it on all the checks just one as of now. Regards Paul Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:        [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:  

RE: [SA-list] NT Service check failures on SA 3.3.1135

Dirk, All I have is:- 24 January 2003 12:05:33 NT Process check of tdm_service on 134.238.2.232 failed 24 January 2003 12:05:33 Sending email message (CZ-1-MCSTGBNT13 Teccom Document Manager is DOWN) 24 January 2003 12:05:49 SMTP Error : stopped sending mail 24 January 2003 12:05:49 SMTP Error :

[SA-list] NT Service check failures on SA 3.3.1135

Dirk, I am having a few problems right now with NT service checks where they are showing as failed and the services are actually running. These services are on several servers and have nothing in common except that they are failing. All these services started to fail at the same time and I have

RE: [SA-list] V4 perfmon problems

Dirk, I get the following for the same check. The check has actually failed but it still shows as up. The check actually checks for > 0 so when a 1 is found it should be down. Friday, January 24, 2003 8:49:43 AM Perfmon (BE Engine,Failed Jobs,) gave 1 Friday, January 24, 2003 8:49:43 AM Perfmo

[SA-list] V4 perfmon problems

Dirk, When doing perfmon check I seem to be getting a few problems where when the perfmon check fails it has in the log the correct value followed by a down message and then an up message. I do not believe I should be getting the up message as it is incorrectly reporting checks as up. Also when

RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive v4 beta 1 released - Port Check Query?

Dirk, Installed new build and works a treat. Cheers Paul "Dirk Bulinckx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@woodstone.nu on 23/01/2003 22:54:55 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive v4 beta 1 released -

Re: [SA-list] Servers Alive v4 beta 1 released - Port Check Query?

Dirk, I have an issue with port checks on a user defined port. I have several port checks that check ports which are not defined in the list. These port checks have a timeout of 15 seconds for if there are performance issues with a line or link. Even though these checks are probably checking a

[SA-list] Running as a service and external checks.

Dirk, I am converting servers alive to run as a service. I have a problem with the external checks I run okay as a program. The external checks are in a directory called c:\program files\apps\checkfiletime.exe When running SA as a service i get bad procedure errors for the command line and whe

[SA-list] Error Message

Dirk, Ever since I upgraded to SA 3.3.1138 I have received a message whenever I start servers alive as below. ActiveX component can't creat object( 429) on line 0 Is this anything to worry about and how do I fix this? Regards Paul To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PR

[SA-list] False Failed Ping Checks.

Dirk, Today i've had some funny errors with ping checks. Servers alive has been reporting that the are having 0% success as below. I can ping the servers from the command prompt with no problems. One of the servers is on the same ethernet hub as Servers Alive Server. I have tried to reboot th

RE: [SA-list] Web Page Checking - Question

Dirk, I have been told that sometimes you get a conflict between SSL2 and SSL3/TLS1 which causes the web page to come back as Page cannot be displayed. We have had some errors we where this has happened by checking a page that uses SSL2 rather than SSL3. We have not confirmed that this is the a

RE: [SA-list] Web Page Checking - Question

Dirk, Is there any way of disabling any of these parts? Particularly SSL3 and TLS1? Cheers, Paul "Dirk Bulinckx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@woodstone.nu on 11/12/2002 17:07:18 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: [SA-l

[SA-list] Web Page Checking - Question

Dirk, What Security measures does SA use for web page monitoring. Does is use SSL 2.0 / SSL 3.0 or TLA 1.0 Are the security settings determined by the default web browser settings. Cheers, Paul ___

RE: [SA-list] Perfmon monitors problem

Not Yet, but have it planned. Paul Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:        [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc:         Subject:        RE: [SA-list] Perfmon monitors problem Have you tried the new version (the one I talked about in a previous post today) dirk.

RE: [SA-list] Perfmon monitors problem

I have had problems myself, I have got it so that it no longer reports that it cannot find the computer name, but my problem right now is that it is not finding the counters on the remote system. I do not have this problem with all machines so I believe there may be some registry/User profile iss

RE: Re[6]: [SA-list] Disk Size Monitoring

Dirk, Yes I can access the perfmon stats for the servers in question from another server. There are two domains in question and several servers in each. I can retrieve the counters from a server in the same domain (the PDC) as the one I am trying to access but not from a server in another domai

RE: Re[6]: [SA-list] Disk Size Monitoring

Dirk, Yes I can see services. Are there any special options that I need to enable on these? Paul "Dirk Bulinckx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@woodstone.nu on 11/15/2002 07:19:48 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: Re

Re: Re[6]: [SA-list] Disk Size Monitoring

Viktor, I think that the perfmon is easier to program and is better on the NT security point of view as creating or even using the system shares exposes all those nasty NT security problems. I have got approx 50 Disk checks so far across a European sized WAN. Over such distances the Perfmon che

Re: Re[4]: [SA-list] Disk Size Monitoring

Viktor, I use The NT Perfmon to do checks on Logical Disk with Free MB's You don't have to bother with those pesky shares and it checks much faster. Paul Viktor Sokol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@woodstone.nu on 14/11/2002 13:30:09 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SA-list] SNMP 0ID's

Dirk, What exactly is a 0ID and do you know where I can get information on the SNMP traps? Confused and bewildered Paul __ The affairs, business and property of T&N Ltd are being managed

[SA-list] Age of all files in directory

I have created at the request of others a program call oldestfiles.exe which checks all files in a directory or all files of a specific extension. You can find this at :- http://www.geocities.com/phoenix9in/index.html Paul _

Re: [SA-list] Age of a file

I have now put the file and a brief description on the web for anyone to use. use the url http://www.geocities.com/phoenix9in/index.html Regards Paul __ The affairs, business and propert

RE: [SA-list] Bar graphs for disk space

Brent, Here is what was in the ASP file. I can't see anything wrong with it. HTML is not my strong point though. <%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> <% OPTION EXPLICIT %> <% Dim strLabel Dim intFullSize Dim intResponse Dim intGreen Dim intRed Dim intStart Dim intEnd %> ServersAlive sta

RE: [SA-list] Bar graphs for disk space

Brent, I have tried you template with 1 check. I can't seem to get it to work. The bar chart box appears blank. Is there something I am doing wrong or does Microsoft Internet Service Manager 3.0 have problems with ASP? Paul "Brent G. Ozar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@woodstone.nu on 24/10/2002 13:

Re: [SA-list] Age of a file

Joep, I have a VB program I can send you off the list. It is command line driven so fairly simple to use. Paul "Vaes, Joep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@woodstone.nu on 21/10/2002 11:42:27 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROT

RE: [SA-list] SA 'I'm a live' mail

Peter, Why not use the scheduling (when to check and when not to check) this may provide more accurate checks. Use this to put in maintenance between 00:00 and 08:00 then back into maintenance from 09:00 till 20:00 then maintenance between 21:00 and 00:00. It will produce checks within the tim

[SA-list] Problems with SMTP port check

Dirk, I am having occasional problems with the SMTP port check (25). Every so often it is coming back with the following error:- Wednesday, September 25, 2002 6:20:59 AM Connect to 134.238.2.226 on 25 possible BUT wrong data return I am running Servers alive version 3.1.1043 on and NT4 Serv

RE: [SA-list] SATELNET

Dirk, Is the capability of inserting a wait in the commands still available or changed at all, i cant seem to get it to work. Also has the way that the program checks a string changed as I cannot seem to get it to work. There is no second box for me to debug the check (the lower one of the two