Thank you for the clarification. It would be very helpful to be able to monitor disk availability via HR, as opposed to creating a custom probe to do this. Joe
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher L. Sweeney Sent: December-11-06 11:45 AM To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] Host Resources - Disk Fail At 11:17 AM -0800 12/11/06, Vogt, Joe wrote: > >For example, I am doing some testing - I have HR pointed at a windows >box, monitoring the Z: drive. All good. > >Then, I go to the windows box and I delete the Z: drive. What I am >expecting is IM to alert somehow and say "I don't see the Z drive >anymore" > >But what actually happens is that it seems like IM just re-probes the >device and simply removes the Z: drive from the list of drives >monitored, as opposed to noticing that the Z: drive is missing. > >I even set the device behaviour to not allow periodic reprobing, but it >still acts the same way. > >Could you shed some light on how HR monitors and alerts on disk >availability? > When InterMapper polls the device using the Host Resources probe, it receives information about the storage devices present. If a storage device that was present is no longer present for a given number of poll cycles, it is aged out of the table, so what you're seeing is what was intended. I can certainly add an enhancement request for the ability to alarm on items in the storage table disappearing. -- Christopher -- ================================================ Christopher L. Sweeney Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com/ ____________________________________________________________________ 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]
