Since you asked, even though this is not for NT Services. Thank you for opening up for suggestions. I would think this is the ideal place to find ways to improve your product.
Wish list. 1. Allow a forced sort for alerts. I would like the alerts to go in a specific order. It now seems that they are based on the last one entered is the first alerted. Please add a way to maintain a sort order for each device for alerting. This is a high priority for my office based the problems we have with the next wish. 2. Group pages. We get a high percentage of our pages that fail 2 or 3 times before making it to the carrier. Debug shows that it does not get a dial tone most of the time (the modem has not had enough time to hang up before WhatsUp tries to send again). Is there any way we can get group paging added? I have asked for this several times over the last 4 years. What I mean by group paging - that WhatsUp makes one phone call to our pager carrier (our case MobilFone) connects and sends as many pages to as many different pager numbers as is necessary. We typically have three pages sent per down device. Having all three sent at once would be the first step, then having it send all three pages for all of the devices that drop at the same time would be even better. For example - last night we were still getting pages for down devices over 2 hours after all devices were already back up and working properly. I actually closed WhatsUp and opened it back up to stop the paging, so it was not even finished over 2 hours later because of all of the failed alerts. Granted we did have a great number of devices down (thanks to SWB doing equipment upgrades). Had we been able to send group pages, the alerts would have been completed long before canceling them. We use a text paging system (AirPro) that sends to MobilFone and sends multiple pages with one phone call, so our carrier is capable of this type of action. In a test I just ran with one device going down and back up twice - this should have been 12 pages (three for each down and up) I got 11 failed before all 12 went through properly. Please contact me if you need additional information. Thank you, David Toalson 816-701-4142 > ---------- > From: Adrian Ferrier[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Custom Services AutoDiscover > > Sure - you guys tell us the service and host type ini definitions you use > and commonly work with and I'll see if we can work them in or make > configuration files generally available. Fire away! > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Burks, Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:08:58 -0600 > > >Here is another hint for IPSwitch...let us define which NT services (this > is already available for the standard TCP ports such as FTP, Telnet, HTTP) > to search for during the network discovery phase. Or let us specify what > type of server types to look for during the network probe (e.g. Win NT, > Win 2k, Exchange, SQL, IIS, Clustered, etc.). They could do this very > easily be adding additional device types with the pre-defined services. > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Dave Broeckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:42 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Custom Services AutoDiscover > > > > > >one remark. > >If you use a very big services.ini file then the autodiscovery will take > a very long time in a big environment. > >So only use UseInDiscovery=true on services you really want to discover. > > > >Regards, > > > >Dave > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Harig, Jeff R Mr SIGNAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:32 PM > >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > >Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Custom Services AutoDiscover > > > > > >Chris, > > > >I dropped this onto my WUG server and I'm blown away by the services I > can now monitor. > > > >This is awesome. > >Thx, > >Jeff > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Chan, Christopher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:00 PM > >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > >Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Custom Services AutoDiscover > > > >This is the file I've created for my network, just rename it to > services.ini. The exchange is 5.5 and citrix is citrix xp for those who > have a similar setup. > >Enjoy, > >Chris chan > >Ps. Great tip regarding autodiscovery by the way. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Burks, Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:52 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Custom Services AutoDiscover > > > >Rob, > > > >You will need to modify the services.ini file found in the c:\program > files\whatsup path (recommend that you backup the file first) to include > these custom services with a statement to enable the auto discover. It has > been requested that IPSwitch include this as a standard feature in a > future release (hint version 8, that is now in beta) for all of the > default Windows NT 4 and 2000 services. So far, it is not included in > version 8 Beta 3. Perhaps a group of us could gather these services and > share the file? > > > >Currently the only way to discovery NT services that have been defined > previously is to modify the services.ini and include "UseInDiscovery=true" > statement (see below): > > > >[IIS Admin Service] > >CLSID={87B0F902-CF8A-11D2-9CC8-0040053DDA73} > >SERVICENAME=IISADMIN > >RESTART=0 > >UseInDiscovery=true > > > >[IIS SMTP Service] > >CLSID={87B0F902-CF8A-11D2-9CC8-0040053DDA73} > >SERVICENAME=SMTPSVC > >RESTART=0 > >UseInDiscovery=true > > > >[IIS WWW Service] > >CLSID={87B0F902-CF8A-11D2-9CC8-0040053DDA73} > >SERVICENAME=W3SVC > >RESTART=0 > >UseInDiscovery=true > > > > > >Regards, > > > >Jon > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Goodwin, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:52 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Custom Services AutoDiscover > >I have a number of custom services I have defined and they all check > properly. What I want is to click the autodiscover button on the device > and check to see if the customer services are on a server. > > > >Has anyone done this? > > > >Thanks > > > >Rob Goodwin > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the KillerWebMail system at alpha.ipswitch.com > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
