Was wondering the same thing. I'm not in the office right now so if
anyone knows and could reply I'm sure alot of us would appreciate it.

---- Original Message ----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Issues with up notifications [down less
than two minutes]
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:00:44 -0800 (PST)

>Hello,
> 
>Is this applicable to WhatsUp Gold 8?
>
>Eugene Pressley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For those that have direct access to their WhatsUp DB I suggest the
>following to fix the UP notifications without downs (this script is
>offered as is, any possible damage caused to your DB by this script
>will
>not be my responsibility):
>
>Open the WhatsUP DB in the SQL Query Analyzer and run the following
>SQL
>script:
>
>UPDATE MonitorState
>SET nInternalStateTime = 1
>WHERE (nMonitorStateID = 3) OR (nMonitorStateID = 5)
>
>MonitorStateID 3 is Down and 5 is UP. This script changes the default
>StateTime from 0 to 1 which means that a device has to be UP or DOWN
>for
>at least 1 minute before the system logs the state change. This way
>if
>you have some devices, that for whatever reason, have slightly
>unstable
>connections this will prevent the sporadic alerts. I would not
>normally
>recommend directly editing the Database however IPSwitch has decied
>to
>lockout the settings on the default Device States, which you can see
>but
>not alter on the WhatsUp Application. I would recommend that they
>unlock these values in the upcomming service pack so patches like
>this
>would be not be necessary.
>
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/22/2004 8:21:35 AM >>>
>Regarding up notifications without preceding down.
>
>The default notification we got when we migrated was:
>
>Notify if the device goes down for more than 2 minutes
>
>Notify if the device goes up.
>
>So, if the device goes down for 5 seconds, and misses the poll, then
>you will NOT get a down notify, but WILL get a up notify.
>
>If you check the Device State Change Timeline, you will probaby see
>the
>records of the short outage.
>
>After discussing this with my server guy, we thought it was actually
>not too bad. The up without a down implies a short outage. Two pages
>are not really needed. At least not for us, and our remediation
>timescale!
>
>Cheers.
>
>
>Pete Hoffswell 616-732-1101 (Grand
>Rapids,
>x1101)
>University LAN/WAN Coordinator 616-510-1198 (Mobile)
>IT Services 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Davenport University http://www.davenport.edu 
>
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>
>
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/19/2004 4:49:10 PM >>>
>
>
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