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Nothing anyone can suggest?
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remote in
to a virtual desktop it can cause problems.
Other than that my v6 and now 6.1 as of earlier this week do not exhibit the
same issue, although I am not running on a server OS yet for my main SA
machine.
Chad
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No, I mean when I log in a
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I've had this ever since upgrading to v6 and was hoping the final
release of 6.1 would fix it but it hasn&#x
I've had this ever since upgrading to v6 and was hoping the final
release of 6.1 would fix it but it hasn't.
The good news is that I can reproduce the hang and CPU thrashing.
I have 2 SA servers, both on Win2003 R2 SP2, both running SA as a
service logging in as LocalSystem. One server is the mai
have the interface updating as it used to if
the checking has been stopped, not just in between checks.
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Why is it disabled?
How am I supposed to add new entries and check them when I can’t see the
results until I exit and reload SA an
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I’ve got a really strange problem with 6.1.2151 & now 6.1.2162
The app norm
I’ve got a really strange problem with 6.1.2151 & now 6.1.2162
The app normally runs as a service and we update and add checks by clicking in
the icon in the system tray. Just now I tried adding a new check which was a
copy of an existing one and although all the entries for that check are
sage-
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] URL & Database Checks Failed in Strange way with
SA version 5.0.1728
No, I'm using the standard built i
Just catching up on the list here, I have exactly the same issue with
the URL checks but I'm running the latest v6 beta.
After a few days of Servers Alive running successfully, all the URL and
DB checks(but none of the other checks) failed with these errors:
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Importance: High
Following on from my reports of
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(http://www.emedia.co.uk/maximum_response.pdf)
Steve Davis
Chief Technology Officer
Electronic Media Ltd
Woodland Court
Shortwood Copse Lane
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I am now seeing this same problem running the latest v6 beta (6.1.2133) from
I am now seeing this same problem running the latest v6 beta (6.1.2133) from
the website. Once a day Salive is just hanging and maxing out the CPU.
I have disabled XMPP and MSN alerting so the only alerting is via SMTP. I have
logging set to Max and it updates a web page during each cycle.
Hi everyone,
1) I would like servers alive to be able to do a network scan and come back
with all the hosts it finds and all the basic open services and allow me to
easily add these to the list of checks.
2) I’d also like something similar to a new server wizard where I can
specif
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] GUI make-over
Fair point - 80% of my checks are domain servers though and this would
require
me adding credentials to at least another 200 checks.
N
SA to use so you can audit logons and all works
fine.
Kindest regards
Tobie
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Dirk,
1
that's a totally new feature
4. That's not a gui change that's a totally new feature
Dirk Bulinckx.
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1) My biggest bugbear with the GUI is the fact you can't interact
directly with the service. If running as a service I'd like to be able
to go in and make changes but I have to stop the service, fire it up as
an APP, make changes, shut down app, restart service.
2) Make if fully manageable via a w
Hi,
Is anyone using this at all, particularly with the Wildfire server?
I cannot work out which combination of settings to use, it seems more
complex than it needs to be as the clients just ask for server name,
port, logon name.
Steve
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can.
Hope this helps.
David
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Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:30 AM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: [SA-list] Dell server monitoring advice
Hi Everyone,
How you don't mind the off-topic message
Hi Everyone,
How you don't mind the off-topic message but I'm trying to
find the best way of monitoring my Dell enterprise servers for hardware
failures.
They have Dell openmanage software installed and this logs
events into the event log but for some reason this takes over 5 minutes to q
Hi everyone,
After lots of testing with both Dirk and myself, I'm happy to report I
now have Jabber alerting working with Servers Alive.
We originally had issues with the Jive Server we were using (now called
Wildfire!) with it being quite sensitive to timeouts so Dirk had to
increase timeouts sl
Hi
Dirk,
I've downloaded this
to try it but am still having the same issues as before on the test app with it
not authenticating to a Jive Messenger 2.3.1 server.
My server accepts
connections on 5222 or TSL on 5223
The server id's are
usually in the form:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (example.)
Of Steve Davis
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:20 PM
To: salive@woodstone.nu
Subject: [SA-list] ODBC Com addon not creating Database connection
string
Hi
I'm trying to use the ODBC Com addon for the first time.
I've added a DSN to the system and tested this and it works fine. I&#x
Hi
I'm trying to use the ODBC Com addon for the first time.
I've added a DSN to the system and tested this and it works fine. I've
chosen an ODBC check within SA v5.
My proble occurs while trying to configure the COM ODBC check.
Click the browse button, next to ODBC Datasource and my DSN is lis
Dirk,
Do you know of any combination
of utils I could use as a stop gap until full xmpp support is included? ie a cmd
line util I can all with a sequence of options.
cheers
steve
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BulinckxSent: 08 September 2005 12:03
As google is just using XMPP/Jabber are we
going to see full jabber support at last?
I recall this was tested a while ago but
nothing seemed to happen. I could really do with this now. We use Jive
Messenger internally only and don't use any other 3rd party messenger
systems.
I'm happy to
Dirk,
Some updated information for you.
This problem is still there even after loading the beta you suggested.
It IS however now passing the DOMAIN across which it didn't before.
The http auth check works fine against a Windows 2000 server running IIS
but the one that is failing is against a Win
Hi,
I've upgrade to the version suggested
below and the problem is still there. Any other ideas?
cheers
Steve
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BulinckxSent: 05 May 2005 13:07To:
salive@woodstone.nuSubject: RE: [SA-list] https/auth check failed
afte
no, they're internal sites only.
I'm passing a DOMAIN\user and password but looking at the web server, it's only
seeing the user part.
steve
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BulinckxSent: 05 May 2005 12:35To:
salive@woodstone.nuSubject: RE: [SA-list] h
Hi,
I've
just upgraded our production server to V5 and all checks are working fine apart
from 2 which were fine before the upgrade. The error is 401
Unauthorised.
They
check the content of a couple of pages via HTTPS that requires authentication.
The web server accepts NTLM and basic. I
Thanks for this. I did try
looking at the "Should contain" & "should be exactly" options. I ran a test
query and then pasted the output into the should contain text but this always
fails with a "does not contain the required text" error. The log
doesn't show what the DNS check returned, even
Hi,
I'd like to use the DNS check to see if one of our relays
ends up in the spamcop blacklist. You can find out by doing a dns lookup against
an IP and if you get a result, usually 127.0.0.2 then you are listed. If you get
an error, or host not found then you are not listed. This is obviou
t: RE: [SA-list] Can't authenticate against web server?!
What kind of authentication is your IIS server using?
Basic or ntlm?
Dirk.
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Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTE
Hi,
We've just moved onto a new version of one of our internal web systems
and for some reason I cannot get Salive (latest version) to
authenticate. It just returns the error 401 Unauthorized.
The old server was a Win2k std server, sp4 running IIS and the website
authenticated against our active
Ok, I'm being stupid here :-) - can I schedule it to run at a specific
time, say 16:30 every day. And how would I do this .
Cheers
Steve
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Behalf Of Marcel Wijnberger
Sent: 11 May 2004 09:35
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subj
Hi all,
This isn't directly related to SA but I'm after a util that I can put
into the scheduler that will fire an MSN Messenger message at a specific
time. We currently use Net Sent but these get missed, some people have
messenger disabled.
Does anyone know of a way of achieving this?
Cheers
S
I guess I was expecting it
to be able to remember the unique ID that is given in the subject and only look
for that message.
I personally only want to use it
for send AND receive checking so my option is easy :-)
thanks
Steve
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Can I put this in as a feature
request then please. It would be great not to have to create MORE pop boxes for
this.
cheers
Steve
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BulinckxSent: 30 April 2004 13:20To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [SA-list] Another SM
Hi,
I've just started using this to test a number of different
internal relays and mail systems. One thing I've found is that the POP3 check
removes ALL of the SMTP2POP3 check mails.
I was hoping it would be clever enough to just remove the
message it's looking for, not ALL of the test me
Hi,
We're currently running SA v4.
I have an SMTP relay that is being reconfigured periodically by "something".
Totry and trace when it happens I'd likeo monitor it with SAlive.
What happens is that the relay loses it's ability to accept emails for
certain domains and gives a 550: cannot relay e
gb of disk space and it's supposed to alert when below
1gb.
SA runs as a service
on Win2k and I have supplied the username/password for this check. Running
4.0.1327 enterprise
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If I
could add an addition to this. I't be great to be able to make global changes to
web templates as well, ie add another template. Or click multiple items from the
GUI and then apply new common changes such as alerting methods or new
templates.
cheers
Steve
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Brent,
Can your drilldown template be downloaded from anywhere?
cheers
Steve
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From: Steve Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 February 2003 13:25
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Anyone care to share any web templates?
Brilliant!
t
Brilliant!
thanks guys these really help.
I'd like to try and do a combination of Brent's drilldown template with
Phil's layout, I think I'd have the perfect template then.
Off to learn frontpage ;-)
Steve
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From: Brent Ozar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 Februar
Hi,
As
someone who cannot code HTML if his life depended on it I was wondering if
anyone has any nice templates they use that they are particulary proud of and
would like to share :-)
I'm
just looking for a clean simple design to give at a glace indication of server
state.
Any
donati
Hi,
This is something that has bugged me for a little while.
If I run SA as a service logged into the service account I can get into the
GUI fine and edit SA. This however stops a lot of my remote checks working
unless I log in with a specific domain account.
Doing this you no longer get the "mo
Dirk,
Found the problem. When you add new people or teams they are not "active" by
default. Because of this Servers alive had no-one to mail or MSN to.
Steve
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Sent: 17 February 2003 15:40
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Mon Feb 17 4:26 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [SA-list] MSN alerts
I also get this problem now.
The MSN messenger test works fine.
yes I do have the file aamd532.dll
messenger.hotmail.com resolves to 207.46.104.20
Steve
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I also get this problem now.
The MSN messenger test works fine.
yes I do have the file aamd532.dll
messenger.hotmail.com resolves to 207.46.104.20
Steve
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From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 February 2003 14:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-
r the alerts? What alerts do you use on the URL check
entrY?
dirk.
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Sent: Fri Nov 29 10:31 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [SA-list] A failed check locks up Servers Alive
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ation)?
dirk.
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Sent: Fri Nov 29 10:31 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [SA-list] A failed check locks up Servers Alive
Importance: High
Hi,
For some reason a website check that
Hi,
For some reason a website check that timed out last night completely locked
up servers alive. Basically the web server failed, fine. Servers alive
detected this in the log file but then stopped functioning. It didn't send
any alerts either. It should have at least sent an SMTP message.
We reb
T 4 you'll need to install WSH - freely available from Microsoft.
As it happens, I have some source code I can send you... (deletes files
older than X days old, but can be tailored to move them...)
Please advise if required.
Thanks,
Mike.
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From: Steve Davis
m...)
Please advise if required.
Thanks,
Mike.
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From: Steve Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 11 October 2002 10:38
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [SA-list] Log File Rotation Utility Needed
Hi,
I'm looking for a tool to help me manage log a
Hi,
I'm looking for a tool to help me manage log and backup files produced by
various systems (including servers alive) that produce daily logs but don't
offer the function to only keep x days worth of logs.
I'd like to be able to give a filename pattern including wild cards and have
anything ol
these
Steve
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From: Steve Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25 September 2002 11:14
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [SA-list] email options?
would guys care to elaborate please.. I've looked through the obvious
options but couldn't see this.
che
mailing to a team this is possible.
dirk.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Steve Davis
Sent: Wed Sep 25 11:56 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [SA-list] email options?
Hi,
We have an email to sms service that we're tr
Hi,
We have an email to sms service that we're trialling at the moment and it
seems to work well.
What I'd like to do is have Servers Alive email different addresses at
different times of the day, ie: email my work account between 9am - 5.30pm
and my sms address out of hours.
How can I achieve
or FTGate www.ftgate.co.uk
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From: Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 September 2002 06:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SA-list] Mail Servers (revisited)
You may want to take a look at IMail.
http://www.ipswitch.com/products/IMail_Server/
- Original M
Hi,
I'm using the event log perl script and am having problems searching for a
string that contains spaces and colons, ie: "LogShipping: Database:
Subscription"
I gave the following command line which I expected to work
-a -s $ "server$application$30$1$*$*$message$LogShipping: Database:
Subscr
Hi,
I've had SA running for a few weeks now and it's been updating the html
template fine For some reason this has now stopped updating. SA is still
running and I still get alerts but the template stays the same.
As far as I can tell nothing has changed on the SA server but I now get this
in the
FTGate - new version has most if not all of your requirements
www.ftgate.co.uk
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From: Ed Ditlefsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 27 June 2002 00:44
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SA-list] Off-topic - mail server
Importance: Low
This is off-topic for this list,
Message
did you save the settings?
was the host seen as down when do did the change?
what version of SA are you using?
Dirk.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Steve Davis
Sent: Friday, 24 May, 2002 12:10 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm doing some CPu checks using Servers Alive and I only want to be notifed
when the CPU spike lasts for more than 10 minutes (5 check cycles)
I've set up the SMTP message to be sent when down exactly 5 times and when
backup to but this is being ignored as I get emailed straight away. I've s
:) thanks
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From: Jack Lyons (Martin Agency) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 May 2002 11:40
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SA-list] SAReports
try ppm instal DBD-ODBC
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From: "Steve Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: &
I say insert.exe. Oops. I didn't include executables, so make that
insert.pl. The DBI error may be coming up because you don't have DBI
installed. Try going to the command line and typing:
ppm install DBI
That should grab and install the latest DBI module.
> -Original
didn't include executables, so make that
insert.pl. The DBI error may be coming up because you don't have DBI
installed. Try going to the command line and typing:
ppm install DBI
That should grab and install the latest DBI module.
> -Original Message-
> F
Hi,
I know it's not supported but has anyone had any luck setting up SAReports?
The docs refer to an insert.exe, the download only includes an insert.pl,
this doesn't run as it complains about a missing DBI.pm file.
How do I veiew the graphs?
(No PERL knowledge at all here)
cheers
Steve
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