RE: [SA-list] SA get Disk Drive Space but can't ping server

[Dirk Bulinckx]

Ping is using the ICMP protocol. Diskspace a netbios protocol.     It can well be that the system no longer responds to ICMP requests while it still responds to netbios requests (or that icmp is blocked on a different level <- router/firewall/...) Dirk.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Bartos Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SA-list] SA get Disk Drive Space but can't ping server Hello, I set up SA to monitor the drive space on one of my servers and SA seems to be reporting accurately.   Although one of my drive space monitored servers fails to respond to Pings.  For my purposes this server is down.   Question:  How is servers alive still able to monitor the drive space even though the server can’t respond to Pings?   -Thanks -Tom