The SNMP probe is the only one that "falls back" to a Ping attempt when the SNMP queries fail. The original reason, from a few years ago, is that certain routers, when very busy, would devote less of their resources to answering SNMP packets. Rather than reporting them down when the SNMP went unresponsive, it made sense to make sure they were still running. Putting them into ALARM was the compromise.
It may now make sense to make this "fall back" probe an option, so you can turn it off.
Bill Fisher Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com
On Nov 29, 2003, at 11:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Except that from within a custom probe of any kind the best you can do is to put a pingable device into ALARM. Even if you explicitly DOWN the device in the probe it does not work. This was the case a few months back. Might have changed with more recent releases.
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