topic Continous Ping in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Continous Ping

Anthony Jung — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:06:22 GMT

Currently out of the box I am monitoring my servers but when a box goes down I receive the initial notification that the server is down but that is all. If the server is restarted I also receive the snmp link up notification. How do I configure SIM so that I keep receiving a notification that the monitored server is still down?

Re: Continous Ping

Rob Buxton — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:06:28 GMT

That's not how SIM works. It's all about a single notification and then the Dashboard is updated indicating how many devices are Critical etc.
System down Events get cleared when the server is back.
I think something like Nagios keeps e-mailing if the server is unavailable.

Re: Continous Ping

Anthony Jung — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:52:38 GMT

was this always like this? I thought with previous versions it recorded up and down.

Re: Continous Ping

David J Atkinson — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:08:32 GMT

It's still like that. It records a "Critical" event when the server goes down and the server hardware status changes to "Critical". When the machine comes back up a "Normal" event is recorded and the "Critical" host-down event is automatically cleared.