hi willem, It's hard to say what the exact problem is. You may have real problems in your network which mon is uncovering, or you may just have slow servers, or a slow network.
Every monitoring program and every setup is a compromise between 'false alarms' on one end of the scale and 'missed positives' on the other end. Each person who installs mon decides, based on how much they want to get paged and how much they can afford downtime, how to set their thresholds. The great thing about mon is that all those thresholds are very finely tunable. Out of the box, some other monitoring packages might give you less paging, but over time you may run into serious limitations when you want to deviate from their defaults. I will say that 30 seconds, except for ping tests, is a really short time interval. You might not be giving your tests enough time to finish and you might be putting undue load on your mon server. You might try making ping tests every 1 minute and other service tests every 3-5 minutes. Hope this helps. It's a general question, so you get a general answer :) andrew At 11:00 PM 10/23/01 +0200, you wrote: >hi, > >I'm trying mon as a test for my company and made a config file and >startded it. after som debuging in my config file:) I though it sould >work and it does for some time and then then it start sending mail >to my account that servers are down and after that is gives me upalerts >and this complitly random. >I have al my alerts checking every 30 seconds and waithing for 5 min >and in 15 minutes time I get like 3 down and 3 up email. al those email >from different servers at diffrent times. > >-does everybody have this? >-what to do sould I set my alert times longer(al thow I don't like that >Idea)? > >thx > >greating willem
