Perhaps you need to decrease the polling time on the Windows 2K servers you are monitoring, so that you can catch the downtimes. Default polling times are 30 sec for InterMapper devices. Experiment by going with the next lower setting: going too low can impact InterMapper performance adversely.
If printers and servers drop from Chooser in pre-OS X, then you might have some kind of broadcast storm going on in your network. A good packet analyzer program running on a computer listening to either the hub with the stations that run Chooser, or a port-mirrored switch port for such a station, would detect the anomalous traffic. Perhaps you have some printers with extra protocols (like IPX) not needed in your network, or you have extra services or protocols on your Windows 2000 Servers (like NetBEUI, one we have to remove a lot). Regards, Mark - Mark C. Persiko, Network Engineer - IT Division, Boulder Valley School District - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Frederic L. Washer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 5:15 AM To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: Monitoring Mac Services From a Win2k Server I have two Win2k Servers, one that serves files and the other that serves printers. I have setup IM to monitor the Appleshare IP protocol on the servers. However, sometimes the server and printers drop from the chooser in pre-OS X and from the Printer Utility and Connect to Server window in OSX. The file share is still is available by typing in the IP address. When this happens, printers become completely unavailable from the server, and connections to the file share cause problems. The entire time this is happening, the Appleshare IP monitor says everything it fine. When I finally discover the problem I stop and start the mac services on the Win2k Servers. In any case, I would like to monitor with IM when the "Appletalk" or apple network listing of the services fails, so I don't find out about it by accident. How would I set this up? Thanks, Ric ------------------------ Frederic L. Washer Programmer/Analyst Dartmouth College - VP For Development ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
