The fact is that sometimes the backup software uses all the bandwidth, so ServersAlive becomes unreliable and generates some false-alarms. I'm evaluating whether could be a good idea or not, to put on a second NIC on the same subnet just for the ServersAlive.
Thanks, Domingo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:44 PM Subject: RE: [SA-list] How to make ServersAlive running through only one N etwork Interface Card? > Are all the devices you will monitor also dual-homed? On a separate subnet? > You could add a second IP Address to that NIC on a different subnet with a > secondary ip on the default gateway for that nic and try routing the traffic > that way? > > Why do you have two nics on the same network with different metrics? It > seems to me that you are looking for backup connection in case the primary > fails, but I think if you had the same metric, it would do some statistical > load sharing. > > Jack > > -----Original Message----- > From: Domingo Davoli - Q&S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 6:12 AM > To: Servers Alive Mailing List > Subject: [SA-list] How to make ServersAlive running through only one Network > Interface Card? > > Hi, > I have a multihomed Windows 2000 Pro pc (with 2 NICs), on which a network > backup software and ServersAlive will both be running. Both NICs are > connected to the same subnet, with the same network gateway and two > different metrics. > > I would like to make the backup software use only the first NIC, while the > ServersAlive use only the other one. The first task is solved by the backup > software options. > > How can I tell ServersAlive to use only the second NIC? > > The pc will > TIA, > Domingo > > ------- > Q&S Srl > Via P. Borsellino, 2 - 42100 Reggio Emilia (ITALY) > Tel. +39 0522 924208 - Fax +39 0522 924207 > http://www.quesse.it - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > > This email and its contents may be confidential. If it is and you are not > the intended recipient, please do not disclose or use the information within > this email or its attachments. If you have received this email in error, > please delete it immediately. Thank you. > > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
