There are several third party products that can handle complexed notifications that are beyond Whatsups capabilities,  IE escalations, paging for multiple groups on rotation for the same alerts....  we use Attention! with whatsup to provide notifications.  The other nice thing with having a external system for the notifications is they normally can do basic monitoring of the SNMP platform and can send a notify if it looses communication with the WUG server and we have WUG monitor the Attention! server.  

We have had situations where the outage took out the WUG server (UPS failure) and we never knew about the MAJOR outage!

Good luck.

Kristopher Czachor wrote:
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Rod,

So let me understand what your saying. You're telling me I have to put
in at least 3-4 additional notifications PER person PER system? Doesn't
sound very user friendly to me when a simple checkbox option could
easily do the trick. I'm sure other users of WUG would be interested in
a feature such as this. Wouldn't you agree?

IMHO, Ipswitch needs to flesh out their recurring notifications feature
a little more and it will help their product immensely.

still my 2 cents,
Kris

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rod Carty
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Recurring Notifications


No need to make a second node, just make a second notification on the
same one, with the greater number of timeouts as desired. On duplicated
notifications like this, turn off Auto Send Up on one or the other so
you only get one Up notification. You can use the Device Identifier
field to put in the extended outage memo, such as "Down for One Hour".

"Philip A. Gruebele" wrote:
This is simple.  Set up a second node which points to the same IP
address and have that node alarm only after N timeouts, where N is
enough to make 1 hour... That way you can attach any notification you
want to get after the ping fails for 1 hour...


Regards

Philip Gruebele
HPL Inc.
2033 Gateway Place Suite 400
San Jose, CA 95110
(408)501-9270
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