Having dealt with Dentrix before - If network changes have not been recently made and nothing else is effected by these same symptoms, I'd be very inclined to contact Dentrix support before going the route of network monitoring. Dentrix can be a buggy PITA.
-- Espi On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected] > wrote: > I would drop wireshark in on a couple of workstations and log the > traffic...get them to write down exact time when it occurs on one of those > stations. I would also toss some performance monitors on the server. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jimmy Tran > *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 2:24 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] troubleshoot possible network connectivty issues > > > > > > 1. Program is Dentrix G5. > > 2. Client / Server with a SQL backed by FairCom (c-treeACE SQL > Database). > > 3. Server is running ESXi 5.5 with Sever 2008 R2. > > 4. ESXi datastore is on an external QNAP NAS on encrypted disks. > > 5. Their support is useless with this issue. > > > > Three specific issues are: > > 1. When the patient is finished, they will sign a form with a > signing pad in the exam room. The form is saved and you can see both > signatures. Doctor goes back to her office and views that form, only one > shows up. If you go back to the exam computer it will show two until you > close and re-open. The 2nd signature now disappears. This is completely > random. > > 2. X-rays are taken from a patient and each image is labled. They > save the patient chart. Doctor goes back to her office to view the x-rays, > the images are there but not labeled. She closes and reopens the chart in > her office and the labels now show. > > 3. Sometimes the office experiences a lot of sluggishness while > using the dental software on all 15 machines. When I do a file transfer > test of a 250MB file, it could take anywhere from 9-30 seconds. It varies > on different machines. When the "sluggishness" is not there, the speeds > range from 6-20 seconds. When on the server doing the same test, it takes > 3 seconds. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Kennedy, Jim > *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 11:02 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] troubleshoot possible network connectivty issues > > > > Tell us about the design of the dental software. Is it a web > app...client/server...SQL backend? What is saved where and how. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Jimmy Tran > *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 2:01 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] troubleshoot possible network connectivty issues > > > > Slowness while launching their Dental software. Doesn't happen all the > time. Certain things within the application is not appearing after they > are clearly being saved. I'm thinking there is a connectivity issue on the > network causing the network causing all this. > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Micheal Espinola Jr > *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 10:44 AM > *To:* ntsysadm > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] troubleshoot possible network connectivty issues > > > > These are vague problem descriptions for a tool recommendation. Slowness > of what, in which application, while doing what? Which work not being > saved, to what, and in what manner? > > > -- > Espi > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Do you have any favorite network troubleshooting tools you recommend? My > client keeps complaining about slowness and work not being saved. I have a > feeling it could be cabling or a faulty switch. The switch is not managed > so I do not have any monitoring tools there. A ping test comes back ok > after a few hours so I'm looking for some more advance tools that can be > run 24/7 on all machines in the office. > > > > I'm not looking to monitor anything on the machines, other than packet > loss or connectivity issues. What are you favorite tools or suggestions? > > > > TIA > > > > -JT > > > > >
