Alert me when a Node Reboots to use HOST-RESOURCES MIB

FormerIdeaCreator

The nodereboots works of the SNMP agent restarting, which if you are managing servers is probably the wrong thing.

I've posted a UnDP and alert definition to use the HOST-RESOURCES MIB

hrSystemUptime.UnDP

hrSystemReboot.AlertDefinition

I'd like NPM to poll for this OID as well as sysUptime

if hrSystemUptime is present then

     if hrSystemUptime less than the previous then the alert should be "Node rebooted"

     if sysUptime is less than the previous then the alert should be "SNMP agent restarted"

else

     if sysUptime is less than the previous then the alert should be "Node rebooted"

this should preserve the type of alerts for older devices that do not support the host-resource MIB and make the alert more meaningful for devices like servers

netlogix

This is another issue that has been around forever - a little tricky to fix, but now you get first time customers frustrated with one of the more commonly wanted features that say/think "I just bought this app and things don't work right" (might even happen while they demo the app)... I don't know, maybe its a good way to get all users to end up on thwack, but this should be fixed.