Hi, I just posted a reply to the online forum post. The current design does not have the feature to scale down the poll interval after a missed poll. Alerts are based on whole missed polls (or 'triggers').
Since your poll interval is so great, I would suggest sending a recurring report notification every 15 minutes or so, that would report on Downs. That would end being 4 reports per hour. So it might not be practical. Or another option for the web sites: you can add a second icon that will be monitored more frequently, and make it Down Dependant on the main device icon. Add the alert to the second icon. When the first poll misses on the main device, then the second device will pick up monitoring. However you would want to switch to the Poll Frequency on the map to 30 second or 60 seconds. On the Main icon, go to Properties | Monitor and set the Poll Frequency to 20 (Check every n polls). If the Map's Poll Frequency is 60 seconds, then the Main icon will be checked every 20 minutes. Once WUG detects that it returned a down, then the second device will pick up monitoring on a 30 or 60 second interval until it reaches its Poll Trigger. You would have to set the Main device's Polling Method to Services Only, with just the website service being monitored. Otherwise the device will not be considered down, only the service will be down, and it will not trigger a dependency. Mark Singh Ipswitch, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] WUG Polling Question I haven't received a response to this yet so I thought I would ask everybody here. http://www.ipswitch.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=5&MessageID=2095 Other products that I have looked at in the past had the option of rechecking a site a minute after a failed poll. For example, if you are monitoring websites every 20 minutes and it misses one poll, it would recheck the site every 30 seconds until it responded and sends out an alert after the 3rd or 4th poll. With WUG, the only option that I know of is to wait for the full polling period to pass, so the site would have to be down for 80 minutes if 4 was the trigger and it polled every 20 minutes. Is this something that is coming in the new version or is it already there in 8.x but I haven't seen it... ***************************************************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you have received this in error, you must not use or disseminate any information contained in it. Please send it back to the person who sent it to you and delete it from your system. This footnote also confirms that this e-mail message has been swept by Sybari's Antigen for the presence of computer viruses. However, we cannot guarantee that this trans- mission is virus free, nor can we guarantee that this e-mail is secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, or arrive late or incomplete. J.D. Power and Associates therefore does not accept liability for loss or damage suffered as a result of this transmission or for any errors or omissions in the contents of this e-mail. ***************************************************************** 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/
