Continous Ping

[Anthony Jung]

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?

[Rob Buxton]

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.

[Anthony Jung]

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

[David J Atkinson]

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.