My box has been flawless.  I always test on a non-production box for awhile after a 
new OS or application release, but at this time, it appears there will be no issues.



Patrick Storr
Systems Administration
Northwest Internet Services


> ----------
> From:         [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Persiko
> Reply To:     InterMapper Discussion
> Sent:         Tuesday, November 4, 2003 12:06 PM
> To:   InterMapper Discussion
> Subject:      Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" and Intermapper 4.1:  Any Issues?
> 
> Hello-
> 
> Has anyone upgraded their Mac OS X box that runs InterMapper to Panther
> and encountered issues?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Mark
> 
> - Mark C. Persiko, Network Engineer
> - IT Division, Boulder Valley School District
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Lieberman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:27 AM
> To: 'InterMapper Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Nagios false down reads
> 
> 
> We block ICMP 'from' the router to the LAN that supports the network on
> which the IM Service is running. At this time I don't log those events
> to
> syslog. We see no ICMP traffic emanating from the LAN where the service
> resides to the router (I do block with two exceptions and log that). The
> Nagios device is not shielded from ICMP (though it could and will be as
> of
> now). We were seeing some high traffic from two customer networks at
> about
> the same time. We will investigate that.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion Mel.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mel Beckman
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:04 AM
> To: InterMapper Discussion
> Subject: RE: Nagios false down reads
> 
> Mike,
> 
>    I've been seeing problems like this in networks that turns out to be
> the
> Blaster and Nachi virii in their "broadcast" mode -- when they try to
> ping
> every IP address on the local subnet, which results in massive broadcast
> packets on large (e.g. 10.0.0.0/8) subnets. Many routers discard ICMP
> packets when faced with so much broadcast traffic. I don't believe
> Intermapper will sense the broadcast traffic, because it may not be a
> high
> bits per second data rate, just a high packets per second.
> 
> Have you put a sniffer on your network to see if you've got a broadcast
> flood going on?
> 
>   -mel
> 
> >I rarely am watching the screen at the exact moment when the probe is 
> >reported as down, so I can't tell you the "Reason" from the Satus
> Window.
> >Here's what I have right now.
> >
> >The Debug log has nothing for the probe.
> >
> >The outage log looks like this:
> >
> >Mon, Nov 03, 2003    03:58 PM        Cheyenne Temp   29 seconds
> Mon,
> >Nov 03, 2003 03:58 PM
> >Mon, Nov 03, 2003    04:01 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds
> Mon,
> >Nov 03, 2003 04:01 PM
> >Mon, Nov 03, 2003    05:30 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds
> Mon,
> >Nov 03, 2003 05:30 PM
> >Mon, Nov 03, 2003    07:20 PM        Cheyenne Temp   58 seconds
> Mon,
> >Nov 03, 2003 07:19 PM
> >Mon, Nov 03, 2003    07:42 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds
> Mon,
> >Nov 03, 2003 07:42 PM
> >Mon, Nov 03, 2003    07:59 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds
> Mon,
> >Nov 03, 2003 07:59 PM
> >Mon, Nov 03, 2003    09:45 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds
> Mon,
> >Nov 03, 2003 09:44 PM
> >Mon, Nov 03, 2003    11:13 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds
> Mon,
> >Nov 03, 2003 11:13 PM
> >Tue, Nov 04, 2003    12:00 AM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds
> Mon,
> >Nov 03, 2003 11:59 PM
> >
> >  The event log looks like this:
> >
> >11/03 19:19:33  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 1 hour, 49 minutes, 
> >2
> >seconds)
> >11/03 19:20:31  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 58 seconds)
> >11/03 19:42:03  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 21 minutes, 32
> seconds)
> >11/03 19:42:31  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 28 seconds)
> >11/03 19:59:03  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 16 minutes, 32
> seconds)
> >11/03 19:59:31  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 28 seconds)
> >11/03 21:44:32  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 1 hour, 45 minutes, > 
> >1
> >second)
> >11/03 21:45:00  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 28 seconds)
> >11/03 23:13:02  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 1 hour, 28 minutes, 
> >2
> >seconds)
> >11/03 23:13:30  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 28 seconds)
> >11/03 23:59:32  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 46 minutes, 2 
> >seconds)
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher L.
> >Sweeney
> >Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:53 AM
> >To: InterMapper Discussion
> >Subject: Re: Nagios false down reads
> >
> >At 8:30 AM -0700 11/4/03, Mike Lieberman wrote:
> >>Are packets from Nagios devices easily lost, or occasionally not sent,
> >  >for some reason?
> >  >
> >  >We are using a remote temp probe which supports Nagios via IM. The  
> > >Nagios code seems to work, and the temps are properly read. There is
> 
> > >good open bandwidth between the probe and the IM service, (by a DS3
> >>which during these down events may have under 10% utilization). Never 
> >>the less we see frequent "down" events. Setting the timeout to a 
> >>longer
> >setting just makes the "Down"
> >>longer before the "UP". It doesn't appear to be a delayed packet as 
> >>much as a missed, unsent or discarded packet.
> >>
> >>Does anyone have anything else similar happening with Nagios supported
> 
> >>equipment under IM?
> >>
> >
> >What does the status window give as a reason for these down events?
> >It would be worth checking the debug log, too, to see if IM is having 
> >difficulty setting up and executing the Nagios command from time to
> time.
> >
> >-- Christopher
> >
> >--
> >================================================
> >Christopher L. Sweeney
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >http://www.dartware.com/
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