Currently we have within Servers Alive a check for MS-SQL and Oracle. There
is a free add-on for mySQL (http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/addons.asp),
there is also a "generic" ODBC checker on that same page.
What other databases would you like to see in that list?
Please include the v
. as I haven't received any
new postings for several days ?
Regards
Irene
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In the latest pre-beta build we can cache the HTML templates. Why is this
better/faster? Instead of re-reading the template each time from disk (and
use slow diskaccess!) we read it once and then use it from memory.
You can enable this option via setup-general-startup.
http://beta.woodstone.nu
Yes it is.
As you can see on http://archive.woodstone.nu there was 1
message yesterday and one other on the 23rd, and a couple on the
22nd.
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A beta tester to read what is on paper?
Not yet in need of testers But if we need some...we will ask for it on
the list
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Looking for any beta testers ? :)
Typically our clients wouldn't allow netbios traffic in/out of their
network. With some we have VPN links to the site, but for the most part
we don't or only have dial-up vpn access.
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Servers Alive does not have a client module (this is one of the strong
points of SA!). We use the normal protocols as if SA would be a client of
the network. For diskspace/process/service/perfmon this means that we need
NetBIOS access to the "remote" system. Being in a different NT/Wi
Hi,
How does Servers Alive handle monitoring remote servers on the other end
of a Wan (internet) link which are on a different domain ?
I'm looking for something to monitor clients servers, which will be on
the other end of the net, with several firewalls between us, and
certainly on thei
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> What if all checks fail?
>
> I could see a case for eith
(and SK enabled) what to recheck?
"Port host" ? And what if that gives a down? Also "service host"? And if
that is down? Also "ping host"?
But I agree something to think about.
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I could see a case for either "Not Available" or "OK"
OK because the last time you checked it (first pass through) it was OK.
On the Second Knock the parent failed, so you would normally mark it as
Not Available.
-tom
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OK I understand.
BUT what to do for snmp_1 on host?
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An item being queued for a SECOND KNOCK
should automatically queue its "parent" item. This would have to be
recursive right back up to the root and ideally could be a configuration
options (second knock on parent: y/n)
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> The

I do that very thing. I run a 2nd (owned) copy at our DR
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snmp_2 on host
ping host
url_1 on host
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No that can''t be done.
We
Try to adjust the logic of the check dependencies to prevent this from
happening. Servers Alive is a great product, but it has it's
limitations, and one often has to think a little for it.
I do a lot of what I call "sanity" checks that have to work in order for
my real checks to e
Title: What if all checks fail?
To help reduce that traffic, we make all checks for a
server dependent upon the ping of the server. At least that way you only
get one page instead of several on a given server.
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g down, and this can be configured via the setup - alerts - executive
alerts. The executive alerts are checked at the end of the cycle
only.
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Title: What if all checks fail?
I am using SNPP to notify support personnel when a system's checks fail.
I am going to build another SA system for a new facility with a dedicated paging server.
The catch is that the new configuration won't have the SA system separated from the paging ser
Could those of you that got the "threading registry hack" from me, please
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ntrusions to my "play" time I don't have a timetable as
to when that would be complete. I'm more than happy to help anyone who
wants to give it a try.
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>
> Ian
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RRDcgi pages eh? Neat. Any chance of sharing them?
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e previous one... ;-)Outstanding work Dirk.Ian_Ian K GrayOEL IS - European Infrastructure SupportTel: +44 1236 502661Mob: +44 7881 518854Sent via Blackberry - Original Message ----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15/05/2006
Me too! Most recent was @9:31am EDT
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Sorry about this.
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I keep ge
I keep getting these blank emails from
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Please
aphs to be generated after the
update, we have to wait for the update to be done. And it's the app (Servers
Alive that is waiting).
What we could do is the following:
IF the "wait until..." option is checked
then
change update BAT file so that it calls the
graph bat fi
Do you run the RRD graph batch at the end of every cycle? I used the
Windows Task scheduler to run the batch file once an hour and also
pointed my RRDcgi pages to the RRD directory to create graphs on the fly.
I would not tie my cycle times up with graph generation.
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obody will realize you've done anything at all."
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> I've found the problem! We run VNC on the SA server to allow us to
> access the console. I've just stopped the VNC server service, and lo
> and behold SA started racing th

Not specifially with Salive, but it's not used widely here due to its
impact on server performance.
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I thought about that one too :-)
Not yet sure how do split, nor how to make it flexible
enough
Probably it will be more something like every
cycles instead of each cycle
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Here's another thought for a feature
request that would help with cycle times. As I've mentioned, the RRD batch
processing on our checks takes about 3-4 mins every check cycle. Whilst
the hourly and daily graphs need to be done immediately, I could happily
live with a less frequent update for the
t.
Has anyone else found that problem with
VNC?
Ian
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eaning once for the services, once for the processes, once for diskspace
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Authentication per serve
e shared by all dependent checks, if they need to log on?
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We have about 100 servers, 40 over wan links and for each
server
CPU %
DIsk measures * 2
plus other checks related to services, temp measures
etc.
about 400 checks in
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Wow, that sounds exactly like our
setup.
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uess what we're running it as service on
Win2000so we are waiting for his fix for that.
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Is this:
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the product of the list software, or misconfigured client software? It's a
bit ridiculous - and this isn't the longest one, either. Whatever software
i
checks all in a row. An interesting aside, security folks made us turn
> on full security logging. Server crashed because SA filled up the logs.
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> Jim F.
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chekced and for each of them we do need to "ask" for their status. Still
something I'm going to have a real deeper look next week (I hope).
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same server over and over again to do the
checks all in a row. An interesting aside, security folks made us turn on full
security logging. Server crashed because SA filled up the logs.
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k, an snmp check of attached ups, and maybe a db2 check. Ian_Ian K GrayOEL IS - European Infrastructure SupportTel: +44 1236 502661Mob: +44 7881 518854Sent via Blackberry - Original Message - From: Servers Alive Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/05/20
So if we would get the status of all 8 of those services in one go and use
that for the 8 entries we would be able to speed-up the cycle aspecialy if
for each entry SA needs to redo the authentication. Just a thought.
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couple of servers
being monitored are 600 miles away.
We are pinging remote devices all over the place.
(WAN).
Jim
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I can't speak for Jim but in my implementation we averaged approximately
8 service checks per server. There were few process checks but they
tended to be clustered on the same server.
-Kevin
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> About those stats
> (Ping Che
ea on some "stats".
Per SERVER how many service - process - perfmon - diskspace
checks do you do? Is it just one of each or at least 2 service and 3
process and 1 perfmon and 2 diskspace..
I would like to get an idea on that.
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I was running mine on a desktop with a single P4-3Ghz and 512mb of RAM.
Hardware shouldn't be a problem for you.
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> I guess you mean twin procs (346 is only dual) - it's that pesky Xeon
> thing appearing as two. But that
responsiveness.
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Hmmm... So what's the key difference? There must be a fundam
5 0.77%Lotus Notes DB Checks
1 0.15%)
Is it correct to say that the service and processes are
partialy on the same systems? And that you check more then one service and
more then one process on the same server?
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Good idea but... No, and no.
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0.31%DNS
Checks
5 0.77%Lotus Notes DB Checks
1 0.15% Total
Checks 648 SA Cycle Time
(sec) 240 Checks Per Sec. 2.7
Most checks take
0.25 sec.Perfmon checks take about 0.5 sec.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers
Alive
Do you get a lot of failed checks? If so make sure the timeouts are
reasonable. The defaults are high for most things on a LAN. Are there
other things running on the server?
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> Hmmm... So what's the key difference? There must be

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No I am not running multithreaded.
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Jim,Can you confirm if you're running the multithread

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That makes sense, and I could live with that if LAN checks were fast. But I
only get maybe
I ain't so beta tester.
Runnin' 5.1.1964 on a Proliant DL380 w/ twin 3.2 Gz Xeons
and Server 2003
I will say that 75% are LAN now that we've centralized
server data centers
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers
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NO I think they are running it threaded, while you are
not.
The threading can be enabled but for the
Ian
We have fast WANS as well and still find the checks
significantly slower than local, think its down to latency rather than
bandwidth; especially disk size checks etc
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We are doing a wide variety of checks, no RRD. I
export to SQL*Server instead. We do reporting/graphs from
there.
I do believe we had to do a registry tweak to reduce the
delay between checks.
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NO I think they are running it threaded, while you are
not.
The threading can be enabled but for the moment there is
only a small list of "beta" testers for it.
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A quick sanity check: both "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU
Consulting\Servers Alive\IntervalBetweenChecks" and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU
Consulting\Servers Alive\StartUp\PerItemCycle" are string values,
yes? Both are set to 10.
Ian
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We have fast WANS as well and still find the checks
significantly slower than local, think its down to latency rather than
bandwidth; especially disk size checks etc
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That seems REALLY slow. I was running over 1000 checks with many RRDs,
HTML generation, etc and I was never over 15 minutes. With some tuning
and pruning I cut that in half with recent betas.
What kind of hardware?
-Kevin
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> Four checks per second?
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Four checks per second??? How do
you manage that? What sort of checks are they? I'd be plea
Awesome! I'm holding my breath...
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I'm looking for a user that is doing more then 1 radius check within a
cycle.
Could you please contact me offlist? (dirk at woodstone dot nu)
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Looks like you're having a problem on your Exchange cluster..
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checks per seconds/minute and the cycle
time will be reduced but that doesn't mean that you would have more logging. The
interval time (if you let that how it is) will still work in the same
way.
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e WAN will take a bit longer).
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Hi,
we use SMTP2POP3 to check our external mail connection. Since 3 month we got a
lot for errors. ServerAlive reported "External COM check (W0008,7):ERR
POP3:-ERR The requested mailbox is not available on this server."
In Eventlog on POP3-Server (Exchange 2003 Cluster) we found:
Event Source
Title: SA Future Direction
Since everyone is weighing in, I have two add my two cents worth.
Multi-threading
It would be nice if SA ran a little faster, but be careful what you ask for. We are currently running four checks per second. If that number is significantly increased, I can fore
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Issue with re-pointing to a new database...
So, if I disable it, shut down
Sure and it would also give us a big issue with people creating
none-SA-compliant XML files :-(
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I forgot one final point on the XML vs Enterprise storage issues:
The "big boys": could build a SQL based config engine and generate the
XML hostfile out of it and get the best of both worlds.
Could even be a new product for woodstone to sell: the SQL version of
the hostconfig - and updates -
My final comments on the topic - since I seem to have started a lively
debate.
Reasons why XML would be nice:
1) The ability for someone to take the output of scan ( like the
output of NMAP?) and generate new checks into the hostfile via some
external process is the best example I can
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Especially if it had a once a day update feature.
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The settings are kept in the registry and if you
enable/disable you just change that flag, not the actual
info.
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IF we get to doing this it will be in several steps.
The first being will be like an "export" option were you would "ask"
(manualy that is) to export the entries file to a db. Would that already
help?
Dirk Bulinckx.
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I'm not promising that we will do this.
I still think it's a HUGE thing for a little use.
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The owner info is taken (I think) via the ODBC
connection.
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ou do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all."
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Restart SA and try again.
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SA could do that, but could your report writer do that? As that seems to be
THE reason for the db, writing reports from it.
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ou've done anything at all."
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> That just the whole point. We could indeed have a table for each check
> type. But how to link that in a proper way to a table with the host info?
> The UID is indeed the column to use. But for a report you need
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Restart SA and try again.
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