topic Re: Configure SIM icmp status pulling in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Configure SIM icmp status pulling

Maayan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:57 GMT

Hi,
i configure SIM server and everything works fine except that when a machine is restarting the SIM doesn't let me know about it unless it is down at least 5 minutes. i tried my best to find where i can tune this option but with no success. i want the SIM to know if machine is not responding to ping for more then 30 seconds.
please advise

Re: Configure SIM icmp status pulling

marsh_1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:43:08 GMT

maayan,

if you go into tasks --> view all and edit the hardware polling task you should be able to see the current settings and adjust accordingly.

hope this helps

good luck

Re: Configure SIM icmp status pulling

Maayan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:09:58 GMT

10x for replying.
i check this area and there is nothing about ICMP or ping and anyway the timeout is already 4 seconds by default and as i said SIM realize that some machine is down only after 5 minutes!

10x in advanced.

Re: Configure SIM icmp status pulling

marsh_1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:40:12 GMT

mayaan,

how often is the task scheduled to run ?
in options --> protocol --> global is icmp marked for reachability ?

Re: Configure SIM icmp status pulling

Rob Buxton — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:31:20 GMT

The timeout value is 4, but the polling task only runs every 5 minutes by default.
A server can reboot much quicker than 5 minutes.
You can change the frequency of the polling task.

But, and I'm not sure why this changed, ICMP is not listed as one of the protocols used. In an earlier version of HPSIM I set up an ICMP Ping only polling task that ran every minute.

Re: Configure SIM icmp status pulling

Maayan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:11:53 GMT

10x Guys it works!

to bad that there is no ICMP task!