[WhatsUp Forum] Quick question about Web Site monitoring....

[John Batdorf]

Hello, new to the forum, and just wanted to run this scenario past the vetran WUG users! Please bear with me, it will take a minute to explain.

Network Infrastructure:

Our network has a load balancer, with three web servers in the webfarm. Monitoring the site through the load balancer is done as a service, and the domain name. Easy. Now when I reboot a server in the web farm, no problems, as the Load Balancer (LB) detects a server is not available, and routs traffic around the missing server.

We also are monitoring *each* site on *each* LB server. So we have created a vast array of host names, web0x-project.test.url.com (where URL) is our company name. We've added all these host headers to our DNS servers, and set them up as services in WUG. Getting to my question.. really. So these can all be monitored at an INDAVIDUAL level, each server's IP and using host headers through the service, as well as THROUGH the LB.

The map for monitoring the indavidual server's sites is three servers that must respond to ICMP ping request, and then each server has 40 or so sites that are under it. I had set up a UP dependency on the server itslelf before checking the web sites, but found out this is not how WUG works, and you can only have dependencies between devices and not between a device and a service.

Ok... here's the question: So is there a way, that when I reboot a server, if WUG determines the server is down, to NOT check the sites on that server? Make sense? I spent a long time explaining this to the TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGER at IPSWITCH. Here's another way to look at the problem. Say you have a server with 10 web sites on it. You reboot the server, how do you not get inandated with s bunch of pages.

We've set the poll cycle to 100 seconds, and to not alert us until 4 missed poll cycles, this seems to be ok for most reboots, but I'd like to figure a way to tell WUG to not even check the sites if the server is unavailable.

Thanks... sorry so long, or if it's confusing.

John Batdorf

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