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

[Dirk Bulinckx]

The point is that people want to see the "moon" icon over this remote connection.  And this is only possible if you see the REAL desktop of the system running SA.  With a normal TS session you get a virtual desktop and that is not the same as the real desktop.  Tools like pcAnywere and VNC give you the real desktop and thus will work fine.  With Win2003 you have an option to get the real desktop via a TS session so that should work too.   Dirk.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Bartos Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] SA get Disk Drive Space but can't ping server Thanks that explains a lot.  Since most of my applications communicate with this server thru ICMP I’ll set up a ping monitor event.   Another Quick question:  I thought I saw a message indicating not to use terminal services sessions to run SA likely due to the possibility that the session can get closed and SA will stop monitoring at that point?  Is that correct?   Can I use PC Anywhere or VNC or any other Remote console viewer to manage SA?   -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] SA get Disk Drive Space but can't ping server   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