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maybe, if that was exactly at that time as in 2021-01-27 11:55:05.00 an it may not automatically set numbers to that precision.

Does the SNMP agent have the mib installed/enabled?

In your alert notification, include a timestamp from the alert event so it is explicitly set in the alert. So even if your email or ticket arrives late, you know what time the actual event occured. This gives you a valuable timeframe reference in backtracking any alert delays as well.

Are your domain controllers busy? High cpu? What sort of info are you getting on the interfaces...overall volume, dropped packets, crc errors, etc?

Satellite is a pain due to latency. Thus it can appear to be down randomly at times. In many cases the latency is such that VPN will not stay connected. You might increase the TTL of your pings or the number of failed pings before it is considered down. What is your current latency and if it is randomly down, how many…

Usually you can turn off alerting prior to shutdown and after startup you can let things settle before turning it back on. Since you have already shutdown it may not be so easy.

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Something you could do is add another alert action to log the event to a file with a timestamp and the alert string. This way you know the alert fired....to go a step further, add the logging action before the email action and then again after....so if it hangs or gets interrrupted you won't get the second log message.…

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The NULL indicates a value was not retrieved for that device/port/interface. This could be for whatever reason. Now, was it dropped because system resources were low or were there other reasons. Unknown but your script needs to be able to handle the NULL data as part of its input. One of the joys of scripting is you have…

It depends... For some shops the Solarwinds suite does most everything they need while in others it is a tool in the toolbox that comprises several products that cover the needs of that environment. It depends on what you have that needs to be monitored and how you are able to interface with it. While SNMP is useful, at…

So to see where the delay is, include in your alert the timestamp of the alert so that it appears in the email. Now you have a data upon which to determine where the delay is potentially occurring. I suspect the delay may be in the email server/system itself. It also gives you a way to determine if the email you just…

You should always have something watching the watcher...and it needs to be a different server where that runs. Otherwise no one is in the forest when the tree falls.

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You are likely better off creating a separate alert for DBA's, because one you start making exceptions it is easier to keep things separate. Down side is you potentially have more things to maintain. Be sure and leave a bread crumb so you know which alert rule you wrote the email/message with usually a unique key or phrase…

If you are past your second polling cycle the parent is probably in a state other than "up". This is where having a UPS in place to see if there is a power loss will help provide better intelligence in alerting. Currently there is not a way to force a poll of the parent if a child device is down that I know of.

And sometimes it still doesn't, because - DUH! - the CPU on the box is so busy it can't complete. So that's one of those hit-or-miss kinds of things. Inconceivable !!!

Might be able to build one up with dual boot (not as convenient) or even a VM type of environment. Run one OS in a "window" of the other so you can "swap" between, sort of. Who knows, there are many permutations available if you want to tinker.

delaying the alert for a polling cycle or two...

two words.... SAM and WPM... You can hits the URLs with a web based monitor even without having access to the server since you have access to the website.

very true....not seeing much of a difference from printed edition vs. electronic version of my EMS and Fire related books... Many of the SCI-FI books I like to read are available in kindle format...those prices are about 1/4 to 1/3 of printed. Some are on the kindle unlimited plan and are free to borrow. Back to the topic…

Ah...but likely a timing issue. If it had just polled the parent device and a minute later the power went out it could be polling the child devices before it gets back to the parent. ICMP and SNMP don't report on the path they take. They either return or not and polling is updated from that.

While I do like an actual book for some things these days... I do find the electronic format much more convenient. For some reason technical manuals with dogeared pages, post it notes attached on pages, notes written in it, and a few coffee stains always seem to be for lack of a better term... comforting.

you should be able to do the "monitoring" of the ideas and and use WPM to login as a "user" so you can get to them as a user would. That way you can see how long it takes for portions of the page to load and can give you a feel for user experience. It helps if your WPM machine watching the load balancer is on the outside…

I know there are requests to provide a logic environment where we can perform scripts and do things of that sort programmatically after an event occurs...it is needed so badly especially since there is no correlation engine available. You almost have to go outside the product (send the event to an external program to…

Depends on how many traps and alerts there are in 7 days.

Sorry I didn't have better info for you.

I also noticed that when you select a shirt and then the size, if you "keep shopping" when you get back to the cart you need to re-select the size of the shirt. Seems like it is not retaining the data. Of course there may be a "retain" or "not retain" value based on the level of stock available...either that or the cookie…

Are the nodes designated as DHCP ? How does the reverse lookup for the ip on the node look ?