Friday, May 30, 2003, 2:16:54 AM, you wrote: SG> Apologies to those who already know the following information (probably SG> everyone but me), to those that don't, its well worth a visit to the SG> site reference.
Of course it is! But only because of my cool daily webcam. I just *know* everybody out there is dying to see how a Houston telecommuter lives. Don't try to deny it. SG> For those of you (like me) who want to do some neat things with SA SG> reports on your intranet I would suggest paying a visit to SG> http://www.brentozar.com/salive/default.aspx Oh, you mean the SA templates. Yeah, those are kinda neat too. ;-) SG> Fair play to Brent who is seems to be one of those lucky individuals who SG> loves what he does and has no problems sharing the information around. Thank you, sir. Yeah, I love giving back to the SA community because SA has really saved my butt countless times. Yesterday was another great example. A few months ago, we stopped using SA at work, and started using a much more expensive package instead. Frankly, I think that one is an unreliable piece of junk, so I continued remote monitoring from home with SA, even though our new CIO uses another tool from his house as well. He's asked me to stop doing my monitoring because it puts additional load on our servers, but of course, my opinion is that if we can't handle an additional ping and HTTP check on each server every 2 minutes, then we've got bigger infrastructure problems. I basically said I'll stop monitoring the day he calls me and tells me one of my servers is down, and I wasn't already aware of it. (It seems like at least once a week, the reverse is true - I call him and tell him one of his boxes is down, and he didn't know about it.) So fast forward to yesterday, and it happened yet again. ServersAlive instant-messaged me and sent an email to my phone within two minutes of a firewall going down, and I emailed the network management team to find out if it was just me. Surprised 'em again. I love my job. :-D As for the Java pie charts just showing a grey box, that sounds like the java applets need to be copied to the web server. Read the tutorial for Pie Charts on my site, and it explains where to get them for free and where to put them on your site. Brent -- BrentO Originality: posting a tagline that at least one person hasn't seen. To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
