Thanks Mark. I discounted the logging aspect. That is pretty interesting.
I have thought of a cheesy way to get around that problem. It would of course be performed via a program alert. What you can do is create an extra map with one device (the firewall). When the firewall goes down, you can have a program alert trigger that calls a custom web page that disables logging on each device on the "main" map, except the firewall. You can do this with a loop using java script or vb script, and the What's Up Web Tags. When the device comes up, the program alert will trigger again. The page will determine whether to enable or disable logging by performing a conditional action based on the status of the firewall device object on the "special map". Anthony Franklin, Network Engineer Information Technology Services University of West Florida Pensacola, Florida 32514 850.474.3243 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wittke, Marc Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: [WhatsUp Forum] Automatically enable/disable polling of containers and subnets Anthony, you're not quite right... yes, WUG will send one alert for the whole subnet, but when we generate an outage report, every single system was logged as unavailable. this is right for us (the external IT-service) but the customer (the internal users) met no problems at all. what we do now is manually cleaning the outagereport - would be nice, if a dependency prevented the logging of the unavailable subnet. A single line for the firewall time-out would be enough fo us greetings, marc 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/
