Paul,
Here is a template we use.  No server names on the “lights”, but
clicking on one brings up details.
You need to create a few 10x20 pixel jpg files – each of just a solid
color and put them in the html output location:
RUNNING.jpg  - Green
DOWN.jpg  - Red
MAINTENANCE.jpgÂ
Dirk,
>From a database design standpoint, I think it really important that:
HOSTS
CHECKS
ALERTS
all be separate tables.
Frequently i want to comparisons against checks set up on various hosts, who
get's what alerts, etc. Schedules could be managed as attributes of the Check
and Ale
Dirk,
This would be a great feature request for the next version: the ability to run
a check at a specific time.
We also have a lot of items we would really like to evaluate only once a day.
You’d probably need a way to link it to the windows task scheduler to run
when scheduled, and
What about a com utility that knows the standard MIBs for APC ups units? They
you could have a simple app for checking temp, voltage, battery age, etc
without forcing user to go through long SNMP strings.
It's not about doing something new, as much as doing a common thing much easier
and clean
Dirk,
There are a whole lot of reasons to have a database behind the configuration
for alerts and checks.
1) Less management overhead: Would allow for a simplified creation and
management of this information of users so inclined to approach it from this
direction.
2) Ability
Are you sending through your mail server?
If so make sure your email server allows “MAIL RELAY” from the IP
address of the SA computer.
Exchange will accept mail for “internal” addresses via SMTP, but
you typically need to “turn on” the ability for a machine to send
mail outside the orga
Dirk,
I like the approach with severities. I know lots of monitoring applications
that allow a âgreen/yellow/redâ status, but I think your approach is more
flexible.
Can I ask a favor?  If there can be different levels of severity for a
check, then can we also layer that into th
We get everything we need via SNMP.
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Dirk
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:14 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: [SA-list] Wireless LAN
Hi,
I would like to know how you monitoring
dirk
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Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 5:46 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Up alerts
Maybe easier: How about an alert check box for Any Change of State
Maybe easier: How about an alert check box for “Any Change of
State”.
Then you would get an email for each change: DOWN, UNAVAILABLE, UP.
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ian.g...@okieurope.com
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 9:46 AM
To
SA is very good at operational alerts, and I’ve run it across many
lifetimes in my IT career.
Logging and reporting changes is a different matter though. Take a look at the
Virtual Machine Change Reporting tools from Netwrix (www.netwrix.com
(http://www.netwrix.com)) – sends a daily virtua
In the US, most cellular carriers offer their own email/SMS gateways for free.
It’s as simple as sending an email to @.com/.net
whatever. E.g 5551231...@mobile.att.net (mailto:5551231...@mobile.att.net)
I guess that’s not the same in the UK?
-Tom
From: Servers Alive Discussio
My favorite** SA output template can be found on the independent SA Users
Groups site. It puts a lots of data in a little space.
http://saug.snarkybox.com/index.php?topic=17.0
(http://saug.snarkybox.com/index.php?topic=17.0). Note, you will need a free
account there to view the images and
Patrick,
I am sorry, I am in the US and a site visit is probably not an option, but I
did want to pass on my thoughts on Servers Alive to you.
I have been running SA for almost 10 years in my various roles with different
companies. It’s the first thing I do when I go into a new environ
I forgot - there is another option. If you want to write your own COM check
for SA, LogParser comes with a DLL you can link to and call directly from your
program. I haven't done anything like this, but the option is there.
-Tom
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Ian,
No, I haven't specifically used LogParser for a check like this (last line of a
file). I have used it in other checks, normally called through a batch file.
Typically I use it to scan the log/file in question and direct the output to a
CSV file. If there are no matches, the file is
Dirk,
According to the archives, you were willing to add Disk Space checks into the
VMWare com tool. Were you ever able to do that? If not, are you still
interested?
We would really like to find a way to use SA to alarm on the space used by ESX
host servers. It's not the free disk spac
* Dirk,
Not really along the same lines, but I'll treat this an a good example of the
"Escalation Plan" concept we discussed a few weeks ago. The ability to greatly
streamline the management of alerts by minimizing the places they are
configured and allowing their "reuse".
(still trying
a team and if the team changes then all that use the team use the
updated team info).
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:15 PM
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Subject: [SA-list
Dirk,
I have an idea for an improvement to SA. Its not really a new capability, it's
more of a change to the way current capabilities are managed.
Every one of our checks has several notifications. (first down, 4th down, etc)
for issue escalation.
What I would like to see is a better w
ged one of them?
What db logging are you looking at?
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 3:35 PM
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.
We don't change the case of it.
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:15 PM
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Subject: [SA-list] Bug: Logging to Database
Dirk,
We fo
03, 2008 5:45 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Bug: Logging to Database
the database names are the ones that you enter within Servers Alive.
We don't change the case of it.
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Dirk,
We found a minor bug in the Log to Database area. We use a case-sensitive SQL
instance (don't ask).
The "Create Tables" button in SA 6.1 creates a table called "sadataprod", but
the INSERT statement within your code trys to write to a table called
"SAdataprod".
In our world, they ain't
Boolean would be our first request.
Weighted trigger is interesting, but I think we could accomplish the same
results through creative booleans.
-Tom
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Dirk wrote:
can we get back to the reporting as that was the subject of thisââ'¬Â¦.
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 7:56 PM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive and reporting
MS SQL please.
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e:
can we get back to the reporting as that was the subject of this….
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 7:56 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE:
If you want to build on this idea from Brett, here is what I would REALLY like
to see:
1) Check configuration moved to a manageable database OR a full set of APIs so
checks could be added/changed/deleted outside the app.
2) Separate the "checking engine" from the UI app. In other words, SA
that is not (yet?) possible.
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 4:40 PM
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Dirk,
Con
Dirk,
Configuration reporting is a big issue for us:
-Are all our alerts set up correctly?
-Are checks, timeouts and security settings accurate across servers?
-What checks exist for a specific server?
-What alerts does John Smith get via email?
-What servers have a ping check?
-etc
All of
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RE: [SA-list] SA possible enhancem
On item "2" - What I think Ian is asking for is that the display somehow allow
for [ALERT ISSUED] as a status beyond UP/DOWN.
That is the fundamental difference in the way the application is designed and
the way it is used. A specific CHECK can FAIL - but that does equate to a DOWN
status.
Petr,
If I understand correctly - you are looking for reports that descript the
configurations of Checks and Alerts. There is no easy way to do this.
I think there is an Export to XML option in this version of SA. Try exporting
the config and then import it into SQL or some other databas
Never tried this through an ODBC link, but can you use the fully qualified
table name of DATABASE.OWNER.TABLE within the SQL statement?
Instead of
Select count(*) from SomeTable
Try
Select count(*) from OtherDatabase.DBO.SomeOtherTable
(the ".DBO." is a literal, and is typically t
A chance to plug the greatest utility that ever came out of
Microsoft!!
Have you looked at LOG PARSER
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-
4c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&displaylang=en)
Overview here:
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=40&p=1&SrcDisp
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 4:40 PM
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Subject: [SA-list] Enhancement Request
Dirk,
Can the HTTP check in Servers Alive be modified to allow for the port number t
Dirk,
Here's an idea for your consideration: Master and Slave SA installs.
A slave looks like the current SA: GUI, Runs Checks, Can Alert, etc - but
includes a new feature: Ability to send current "Check List" and "Status" to a
Master SA box.
This could be a push "send" after each cyc
Dirk,
Do you have any plans to support a PING check through the Windows Remote Agent?
Currently the beta only supports NT Processes, Diskspace and NT Services.
We have some remote equipment that we want to monitor for connectivity that we
can't check from our current SA installation. All
Dirk,
One feature that I think would be wonderful to factor in somewhere for a future
major release:
-Separation of the SA GUI from the SA Engine.
By that I mean: Make it possible to run SA as a service all the time, but
allow the GUI to be run, edit the config, view status of the en
There has been an ongoing thread about uptime graphing vs alerting and I wanted
to throw in my two cents. (Disclaimer: My opinions - not necessarily that of
my employer)
SA is a very very good tool for alerting on specific failures.
For performance monitoring, we use MRTG. We plot CPU loa
Log parser. Free Microsoft utility.
(get general info here: www.logparser.com (http://www.logparser.com/))
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Jason Passow
Sent
A powerful monitoring and alerting tool.
Quick to set up
Virtually limitless in flexibility
Extremely cost effective. You can measure ROI in days, not years.
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Sent: Wednesday,
: RE: [SA-list] Configuration-File
that's only export, not import
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:26
Configuration-File The latest beta of Servers Alive has an XML export for
checks - that should make it easier to extract check configuration data and
external tools to find/search configuration data.
-Tom
Fr
* You can actually pump the results of anything back into a SQL table!!
There is also a COM interface to tap the power of LogParser anyway you want.
The ability to set SA checks off this type of data is exactly the reason I sent
it to this group.
-Tom
---
I have to pass on info about this. I realize this email is slightly off
topic - but the SA group is typically interested in finding better ways to
monitor their systems. I found many good utilities through this group in the
past and I want to give something back.
There is a free utilit
/time/count? What exactly would you
want to check?
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:46 PM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] Remote Agent: *nix
Is a process running (ps -e)
File date/time/count information would be wonderful.
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Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 2:36 PM
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Subject: [SA-list] Remot
SQL Server 2005 Just create a specific SQL user account that has READ-ONLY
access to only the specific view(s) that you want to check and remove all other
rights. Design those views to simply return the alarm status result you want
SA to check, not actual data.
If the username/password is co
other fiels?
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:46 PM
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Subject: [SA-list] GUI make-over - more items
GUI Change requests:
FIND feature - t
You can do this with RegEdit - part of Windows.
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Subject: [SA-list] Backup/Restore Registry Entries
I
GUI Change requests:
FIND feature - to find based on Server name, pretty name, or check type,
alerts, etc.
Ability to add more columns to display (check type, second knock, etc)
and sort/filter on any column.
Ability to TURN OFF the update of the GUI and just use it to manage
checks.
Add STATU
Dirk,
My biggest requests would be this:
1) Separate out the GUI from the check engine.
2) Make the GUI just for handling the config and make it
more robust.
Let the check engine run as a service and let the GUI be a mechanism to
manage the check configuration and
SQL reporting and SQL import here as well.
-Tom
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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:06 PM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] XML output
We are a Crystal Rep
inckx.
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:01 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Feature request, was: Changing alert recipients en masse
Can I throw
Can I throw in my $.02 and ask for the config file to moved to an XML format -
which will make it easier to parse/edit with external tools
-Tom
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is already in v6.
>
> Dirk Bulinckx.
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:50 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Re-
Mark,
I would love to have a "Remote Maint" tool. Here's the problem I want to
solve: A tech works on server A.They need to put server A checks in
Maintenance mode within SA to prevent false alarms during their work. They
forget to do so, or SA is inconvenient for them to get to.
S
Having the 'Group' as a variable for use in alerting etc. Gotta love that turn
around time.
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Bulinckx
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2
BUT,
The problem is the failure you are trying to detect:
In a 4-T configuration, you should have 6Meg of bandwidth. What I heard Risk
ask for is an alarm or indication that he is only getting 4.5Meg of bandwidth
(specific numbers are examples).
MRTG makes this visually obvious as a flat
!
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:16 PM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] HTML templates
Greg,
I
to it, I could use it as well. J Thanks!
--BrianO
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:16 AM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] HTML templates
Greg,
I have a template
HTML templates Greg,
I have a template that creates a "dashboard" view where each status check is a
green/yellow/red light based on check results. The dashboard is designed to be
used as an "Active Desktop" web page - its small and always on your desktop.
Clicking on any indicator brings up
Dirk,
I think what Viktor meant is:
He used the BROWSE button to enter the command originally - shouldn't SA
have quotes the command automatically in that case?
-Tom
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inions of my employer.
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:46 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] AD Sc
Anyone familiar with the "LINKED SERVERS" capability of SQL 2000 and later?
Two quick lines of code and you can query Active Directory like a SQL database.
Then you can write all your AD checks and SQL COM checks.
1) Create the link (run once)
sp_addlinkedserver 'ADSI', 'Active Direc
use of this.
A "no report" isn't that similar to not sending out alerts?
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Vogl, Tom
Sent: Wednesday
warning level for v7? If I may throw in my two cents, can I suggest a different
approach?
Take the concept from Michael - add a new field.
Let's call it: REPORTSTATUS
On the GUI add a set of RADIO BUTTONS for each check:
REPORT STATUS
SA STATUS: REPORT AS:
Up
Suggestion to add to this model then:
Be able to use ICQ as a POLLING tool - allow registered accounts send a
status request to SA via ICQ and get back a status report of what is up
/ what is down / etc.
Similar to the abilities in the telnet gateway
-Tom
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f Doug DearSent:
Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:31 AMTo: Servers Alive Discussion
ListSubject: Re: [SA-list] V6 Install Problem
Did you look at this KB article?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/814250
On 11/2/06, Vogl, Tom
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DO you use Backup exec?Jason Passow
Mississippi Welders Supply
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ph: (507) 494-5178
fax: (507) 454-8104
"If you do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all."
V
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ph: (507) 494-5178
fax: (507) 454-8104
"If you do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all."
Vogl, Tom wrote:
Well that be a problem.
I can't get telephony to start.
No error logs, no info, just "1053 - service did not
-5178
fax: (507) 454-8104
"If you do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all."
Vogl, Tom wrote:
Well that be a problem.
I can't get telephony to start.
No error logs, no info, just "1053 - service did not
respond to the st
sow
Mississippi Welders Supply
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ph: (507) 494-5178
fax: (507) 454-8104
"If you do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all."
Vogl, Tom wrote:
Nope. Telephony is not
running.
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Mississippi Welders Supply
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ph: (507) 494-5178
fax: (507) 454-8104
"If you do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all."
Vogl, Tom wrote:
Dirk,
I tried to install
a test copy of V6 on my Windows 2000 Pro desktop, and it
Dirk,
I tried to install a
test copy of V6 on my Windows 2000 Pro desktop, and it doesn't
run.
Launching the
program gives an hourglass icon for a few seconds, then nothing. CPU
usage goes to 50% and stays high until I kill the task (Task Manager shows
ServersAlive.Ex running - but no
Ian,
Can you have SA do a download (FTP?) from McAfee and
then do a binary file compare (FC) of your download vs whatever file you
are using internally?
-Tom
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Mark, thanks for the info. Having this run at
all the client levels is probably not possible, but we can
evaluate.
Unfortunately, we use OOO to make sure our external
customers know that their mail was not immediately acted upon, so blocking OOO
to the internet is not an option for us.
Slightly off-topic
but relevant to this group:
Is anyone out there
using Exchange and found a way to make "Out Of Office" replies go to the
"Reply-to" address instead of the "From" address?
Our corporate policy
is for everyone to turn on "Out Of Office' notices when they leave for the
d
Dirk,
Would it be possible to add an "Are you sure you want to quit Servers
Alive" message if someone clicks the "X" icon on the top right of the
GUI window?
Several other applications we run that "live" in the SysTray don't shut
down when you click the "X", they just terminate the GUI and le
Great!!
Its a similar approach to another tool I've used that
contained rules based proxies. That package allows individual rules to be
exported as a stand-alone items and they could then easily be shared by other
people.
The only suggestion I would make Dirk is that this process
should
I'd second a request for more exchange awareness.
-Tom
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From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David Webster
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:15 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: [SA-list] RE: [SA-list] Database checks
Dis
Hi
Dirk,
I was thinking that
some future evolution of SA could be to take it from just a monitoring/alerting
system to a system that allows you to MANAGE alerts and
issues.
Here is the
situation I was faced with yesterday:
I had a problem that
required us to reboot a system to resolv
I'd second that request!
-tom
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From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:30 AM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: [SA-list] RE: [SA-list] Problem with SA_CHECKDESCRIPTION
Currently this is not possible.
This is a change we
-list] New feature Request - Holidays
The holiday feature is a "PERSON" feature, if you look at a person (EDIT
-
PERSON) you'll see it.
The new option will be something for v6
Dirk.
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Behalf Of
d alert should hthen be on the "SCHEDULE"
tab of each alert?
Dirk.
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Behalf Of Vogl, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:57 PM
To: salive@woodstone.nu
Subject: [SA-list] New feature Request - Holidays
Hi Dirk,
Have a request for a new feature:
Ability to configure one or more dates as a "holiday" and checkbox on
every alert to "IGNORE ALERT DURING HOLIDAY".
I see the HOLIDAY list as just a list of dates, entered via FILE, SETUP.
The ALERT SCHEDULE page would have the IGNORE ALERT DURING HO
I had asked for this feature also. below is the
original request:
Request:
A new status for checks:
DISABLED.
Here is what I am thinking: DISABLED acts like
MAINTENANCE in that checks are skipped each cycle.
BUT - DISABLED checks are also skippe
Dirk - based on this - here's an idea for a new feature in
SA:
Allow user to create a new check and use "[*]" as the
"Server name or IPX address".
Then, upon SAVE, SA would pop up a list of all the
"Server name or IPX addresses" it has already in the file and allow you to check
one or mo
We do a variety of checks that look at hardware,
environment and business processes.
Examples beyond the normal disk space/ping/ checks
include:
Number and/or age of unprocessed files in a "pick-up"
directory for batch processes.
Undeliverable messages from an SMTP server
Busy/failure r
Don't forget numbers. (0-9)
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk
BulinckxSent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:22 AMTo:
salive@woodstone.nuSubject: RE: [SA-list] Group mebership in alert
message
that could work toonot very "clear" but
possible..
Dirk.
All config in an XML file. Parsable and manageable -
yet editable by hand, notepad, etc.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk
BulinckxSent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:46 AMTo:
salive@woodstone.nuSubject: RE: [SA-list] Future Product
Feature
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Title: Future Product Feature
Dirk,
We have had lots of discussion about SA here, and overall we love the product. If we could ask for only one feature in future releases it would be this:
The separation of the SA check engine from the interface. This way the engine could be started as a
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Dirk.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Vogl, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:30 PM
To: salive@woodstone.nu
Subject: [SA-list] No Error - SA just quit.
Dirk,
For what its worth, our SA install died last night.
We upgraded
Dirk,
For what its worth, our SA install died last night.
We upgraded to V5 last week and have never had this happen before.
(5.0.1680)
Previous versions (v4xxx) ran for a year with no problem.
We will try to reproduce and see if we can find anything in the logs,
but it is odd.
No error message f
Could you use this c4u program as part of an eternal check to do what
you are looking for?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Josh Assing
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 6:05 PM
To: salive@woodstone.nu
Subject: [SA-list] HTTP check request.
This
Dirk,
We had a really weird thing happen here. We were running SA 4.1 and
wanted to install the updated ODBC COM utility you revised for us (THANK
YOU!)
We went to Control Panel, ADD/REMOVE programs and tried to uninstall The
COMODBC utility.
It uninstalled fine, but it also uninstalled SA!
Re
I'm
not sure if this is an issue in the ODBC COM object, or in SA
itself.
I
sometimes have connections fail and SA reports the status of:
Didn't meet
'rule'(Successfull connection (DOWN))
Could this message possible be changes to not use
quotes to something like:
Did not me
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