You should get an event that the host is down, but depending on your 
alerting rules, you may not get an e-mail...
--
James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University



kmcgarry wrote, On 4/8/2009 1:23 PM:
> Running Zenoss 2.3.3. Added multiple devices to the /ping class. As a test I 
> shut one of the devices down and waited, but Zenoss did not change the status 
> of the device to down nor alerted me. I tried pinging directly from Zenoss 
> and it return "Destination Host Unreachable" and 100% packet loss. I waited 
> over 20 minutes and still Zenoss reports that the device is up. The same 
> thing happened with the other devices that I am monitoring with just a ping.
> 
> Am I wrong in thinking that with just simple availability monitoring via ping 
> that after certain amount of time without a response that an error should be 
> generated?
> 
> thanks.
> 
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