I would suggest (while you're already testing) to have a 2nd NIC. And once the backup started to force a change in the default route (to use the 2nd NIC instead of the 1st NIC) and to "see" if the backup software continues to use the 1st or switches to the 2nd NIC. If it continues to use the 1st NIC, then SA should use the new default route being the 2nd NIC. And once the backup is done you can switch it back to a default route over the 1st NIC. Change the default route to use the 1st or 2nd NIC is something you can do with a .BAT/.CMD file and you can do this via the scheduler (the starting of those .bat/.cmd files).
Could be an interesting test. I'd like to know the results of it. Dirk. Don't forget to vote for Servers Alive in the annual Sunbelt Target Awards http://www.sunbelt-software.com/targetawards/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Domingo Davoli - Q&S Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SA-list] How to make ServersAlive running through only one N etwork Interface Card? 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 --- [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
