Five basic steps we follow. 1. Put WUG on a box under lock and key. 2. Use another monitoring box (we use NetSaint) to check HTTP on WUG (also under lock and key) 3. Monitor NetSaint as you would any other device. 4. As part of your disaster plan, ROUTINELY test all aspects of potential failurs for notifications. (pagers, dialers, email, popups, cellphone, SMS, sound, ETC.) 5. Document everything.
Good luck. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Beckmannflay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:29 AM Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Clustering WhatsUp Servers > I agree, the product in my years has been rock-solid, but I'm getting the > odd operator issue, "oh really... WUG needs to be running huh?" and no > matter how much I beat them, they're still human. > > Richard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Valuikas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, 1 February 2003 12:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Clustering WhatsUp Servers > > > Well in the 8 years or so that I have been using the WhatsUp! or WhatsUp! > Gold products I have not had that problem or even worried about it. So I > really couldn't say what to do. I do the regular cover SMTP with TAP but for > the most part my install and the product for that matter has proven to be > bullet proof. > > If you are on a WAN you could find someone else with a WUG install and ask > them to check your system by HTTP. > > I guess between my APC's, Lieberts, NetBotz, etc I would have something that > could get through to inform me of a major datacenter problem. > > > > Tv > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard > Beckmannflay > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Clustering WhatsUp Servers > > > Anthony, > > This is more about checking the checker, than clustering as such... > > Can I ask what you are doing to figure out if WUG is stopped, I know you'll > have the other cluster starting in your case, but what if both stop, do you > have any outside of WUG alerts to say that WUG is not checking? > > I'm thinking of a basic VB script to email/page me, or even the old free > (v4?) WUG that just keeps an eye on WUG... where do we draw the line, maybe > 2 or 3 WUG instances checking each other I joke?? > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Valuikas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 31 January 2003 10:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Vandenbergh, Mike; Brent, Kevin > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Clustering WhatsUp Servers > > > I am and have been for about a year or so now. I still have a few little > items I can't seem to get to work in registry replication but I am living > with it. I have a very high end WUG environment. 11 regions (time zones) and > over 125+ offices. > > I'll answer anything I can. > > Tv > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cameron, > Rodney J. > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:57 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: Vandenbergh, Mike; Brent, Kevin > Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Clustering WhatsUp Servers > Importance: High > > > We will be relaying on WhatsUp very heavily on monitoring our network. Has > anyone done any cluster or High availability. We are running Windows 2000 > ADV Server. > Thank you for your help > > Rodney J. 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