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?
It should work to add a new device as the Appletalk name (not address) of the AFP server on the Windows machine. InterMapper will periodically try to resolve the name, and I expect it would fail under the same conditions as exist when the server and printers drop from the Chooser/Connect To Server window. Note that it may take some time for this to happen, as the frequency of this check is determined by the "Minimum interval between checking DNS" setting in the DNS Monitor preference, for which two minutes is the minimum interval.
-- Christopher
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