That's a great idea! I had not thought of that. Another idea: I keep an eye on Servers Alive by using another machine running a free 10 check copy of SA. On this copy, I have installed the file-date-time-modified check and I check to make sure that the html file created by my primary SA installation has been modified in the last five minutes. Admittedly, the weakness of this set up is it uses SA to monitor SA. BUT, it has been working reliably for me for two years.
On the subject of SA stopping for no good reason, I offer this. I have five copies of SA running. They all run on Windows serve 2000 or 2003 and monoitor win 2000 or 2003 servers. Each copy has stopped working at one time or another for no visible reason. What I have learned is that in my situation, it is always a windows perf mon check that is causing problems for SA. What happens is the perfmon subsystem of the monitored server gets flaky for some reason over time, and then SA chokes. It happens usually with checks on MS Exchange such as Exchange memory counters, or SMTP queue length. If I place those checks in maintenance and re-start SA, it will run reliably. In order to start using those checks again, I have to re-boot the server. As a result, I do not monitor these items on most of my servers anymore using SA. Cheers-David -----Original Message----- From: Lentes, Bernd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 3:10 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] RE: [SA-list] heartbeat sounds good. i will test that. Thanks for that tip and a nice weekend. Bernd -----Original Message----- From: Michael Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:40 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] RE: [SA-list] Re: [SA-list] RE: [SA-list] heartbeat That's what I do. I run a telnet port check on port 18457 against the sa server itself. This fails, and the check schedule is only open from 8:00 am to 8:15 am with a send alert when once down. Michael D. Shook Technical Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] 863 668 4477 (work) 863 860 4070 (cell) 863 665 1261 (fax) www.saddlecrk.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerry Aquino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:20 AM > To: Servers Alive Discussion List > Subject: [SA-list] Re: [SA-list] RE: [SA-list] heartbeat > > How about setting up a check that you know will fail ( with > alerting )? Set the schedule so that it only checks at 8:30. > Wouldn't that accomplish what you want? > > > > On 3/16/06, Lentes, Bernd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello Dirk. > > Thanks for your answer. I installed 5.1 and tested already > SETUP\General\Misc Settings\"Send keep alive mails" very xxx min. > > I tested at the beginning every 10 min. and it worked. Now > i want to change to 720 min (half a day), and at the end to > 1440 min. Is there a possibility to configure the time, and > not only the intervall ? That i can get that mail every morning 8.30 ? > > Thanky for every help. > > > > Bernd > > > > _________________________________ > > > > Bernd Lentes > > staatl. geprüfter Techniker > > Systemadministration > > Institut für Entwicklungsgenetik > > GSF > > Ingolstädter Landstraße 1 > > 85764 München-Neuherberg > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > phoneto:089/3187-1241 > > faxto:089/3187-3099 > > http://www.gsf.de/idg > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:31 AM > > To: Servers Alive Discussion List > > Subject: [SA-list] RE: [SA-list] heartbeat > > > > > > First thing is to update to v5.1... > > > > Dirk Bulinckx. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lentes, Bernd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 5:25 PM > > To: Servers Alive Discussion List > > Subject: [SA-list] heartbeat > > > > > > hello to you all, > > > > sorry if i am the 20. who asks this, but i didn't find any > hint for solving my problem. I'm using ServersAlive 5.0.1748 > on W2K Prof., SP4. Normally it's working wonderful, but > sometimes it stopps, without any visible reason for me. Is > there a possibility to have SA sending an email e.g. every > morning (as a "heartbeat"), that i know that it is still > working. And if i don't get that mail, i know there is a problem. > > > > Thanks for your answers. > > > > Bernd > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > > [email protected] To unsubscribe send a message with > UNSUBSCRIBE as > > subject to [email protected] To unsubscribe send a message with > > UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] > > > > > -- > Gerry Aquino > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > [email protected] > > -------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is intended only for the use of the addressee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or agent of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of the message is strictly prohibited. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected]
