Hi There, This does NOT apply to WhatsUp Gold 8.x. The WhatsUp Gold versions do not use a database.
WhatsUp Small Business and WhatsUp Professional 2005 are the first versions utilising a database in order to store all their data. Hope this explains. Kind regards. Luz Berger Berger Network Consult http://www.bergerl.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Merrill Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Issues with up notifications [down less than two minutes] 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 > >-=-=- LAN/WAN services: http://networker.davenport.edu -=-=- > > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/19/2004 4:49:10 PM >>> > > > >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/ > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? > Meet the all-new My Yahoo! Try it today! 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/
