Tony, The triggers # is for the alerts. The Web page both visually and audibly will alarm on a single missed trigger. I complained about that years ago. I didn't want them tied together I wanted a flexible option that would have a settable threshold alarm for the web as well. I envision that you would nomally have a default of 1, just like it is now. For those pesky devices that just love to drop the occasional ping or snmp poll, set them to two or more consecutive failures, then do audible alarm/screen change. The logging would still be set to catch all the failures so you could look back at that and see if it's still just a nuisance or this is getting bad and it needs the pipe wrench.
The request for "double checking" or my idea of "shut up about the single missed poll" should NOT be the defaults. These would have to be options and accompanied by the fine print (if anyone RTFM) that messing with this may cause unexpected results such as ignoring the boss's printer problem even though it kept dropping every other ping. Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony Valuikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:32 pm Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] wish list > Just wondering since I do not do GUI nor sounds but does not > "triggers" do > that? > > Tv > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Luz Berger > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 4:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] wish list > > > The first wish is a very good one. I guess we all are frustrated with > the numerous missed 1 situations. A second poll in xxx seconds could > help this enormeously. Obviously, the extra polling time needs to go > towards the full polling cycle for the map. So extra care has to be > taken in not making the extra polls too long. > > LB > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ben Russo > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 5:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] wish list > > > Wish #1 when assigning a service to a map object there should be a box > for > "double check before marking SVCDOWN if first check fails, pause > XXX seconds before double check" > > with the XXX being configurable > so that when checking machines that are sporadically very busy or when > checking over a flaky network path you could double check things > beforesetting off the audible alerts in the maps and such. > > > Wish #2 is that when defining a custom service you could run any > commandon the server and just look at the return code (0 or 1) as > to whether it > passed or failed. It would also be nice if in the definition of the > service you could define a variable like $* for the options to be > passedto the command when run. > > Then on a map object, you could define this custom service and there > would be a text string field where you could enter the > arguments/optionsto be passed to the command to be run as > specified in the in the > custom service by the $* > > This way Perl (for example) or any other scripting language could be > used on the WUG server to write custom service monitors.... Hell > if you > had other boxes around and set up a batch with a pscp.exe command > to run > a remote command on a UNIX box or a router or whatever you could check > just about anything. > > > -Ben. > > > 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/ > > > 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/
