At 06:15 PM 7/7/2006, Dirk Bulinckx wrote:
>I've seen this on XP systems already, they suddenly loose contact with the >network and sometime 1 seconds and sometimes 60 seconds later they again >have access to the network. I did notice this OUTSIDE of Servers Alive. (I >have 3 ping windows open on my XP system, ALL THE TIME). Yea, unfortunately like I say, I'm not really seeing this outside of SA. (and if it matters it's a W2K3 box.) Anyway, we'll keep an eye out for it. I still suspect it's an issue on our end (DNS server or something) but just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious. > > > >Dirk Bulinckx. >-----Original Message----- >From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Greg D. Moore >Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 6:16 PM >To: Servers Alive Discussion List >Subject: RE: [SA-list] False alarms > >At 12:50 AM 7/7/2006, Dirk Bulinckx wrote: > > > >What kind of checks are those? > >PING, NT Service, URL, etc. (basically any and all). > > > >And does SA recover from itself or do you need a restart of the system > >to get it recover? > > >Oh, SA recovers on the next round just fine. Just really annoying to get >about 50-75 pages all saying "RUNNING" when a) there was no interruption >that can be detected by any other means (i.e. outside monitors continue to >run, I can be term served into the boxes in question when PING and other >alerts fail, etc.) > >And b) annoying that we don't get the DOWN alerts first. (though like I say, >I suspect that's because it can't find the email server by name, so we've >changed it to IP address to see what happens.) > > > > > >Dirk Bulinckx. > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >Behalf Of Greg D. Moore > >Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 5:46 AM > >To: Servers Alive Discussion List > >Subject: [SA-list] False alarms > > > > > > > >We've started to see a really weird problem that is annoying and > >causing me to lose sleep. > > > >False alarms. > > > >Namely out of the blue a dozen or more of our alerts will throw alerts. > >What's even stranger is they only are emailing UP alerts. There's no > >preceding DOWN alert email. > > > >Basically we're seeing some sort of internal network issue (that I'm > >trying to track down). > > > >It appears the DOWN messages never get sent out. (could it be that > >salive tries the mail server, can't reach it and gives up?) > > > > > >Also, what's strange is it appears that only Salive is having this > >problem. (i.e. nothing else internally seems to be seeing these blips). > >Any ideas on that? errors mostly appear to be: "The Current connection > >has been aborted by the network or intermediate services." It's a > >mixture of internal IPs and a few over a public network (so it doesn't > >look like it's a router issue.) > > > >The box in question seems to be ok, and I've been term served into it > >w/o issues while one of these little "alert storms" occurs. > > > > > > > > > > > >Greg D. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >TownNews.Com 1-518-687-6242 http://www.townnews.com > >Operations Manager - East Greenbush Office, Troy NY 12180 > > > >To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > >[email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office > >messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the > >individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will > >get you removed from the list. > > > >To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > >[email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office > >messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the > >individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will > >get you removed from the list. > >Greg D. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] >TownNews.Com 1-518-687-6242 http://www.townnews.com >Operations Manager - East Greenbush Office, Troy NY 12180 > >To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to >[email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office >messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the >individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you >removed from the list. > >To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to >[email protected] >If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then >make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual >members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you >removed from the list. Greg D. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] TownNews.Com 1-518-687-6242 http://www.townnews.com Operations Manager - East Greenbush Office, Troy NY 12180 To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
