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  • Our 2 pollers are on VMware ESX (3.5) with 2 vCPUs and 3 GB of RAM (9,000 elements each) and run fine. The CPU is a consistent 60-70% but we haven't seen any ill effects from alerts or polling delays. Our Web server is also a VM and the DB sits on a physical server running within an x64 SQL cluster with SAN/fiber as well.…
    in Running Polling Engines as VM's in VMWare...Problems? Comment by LGentile October 2010
  • I use suppression fairly extensively to suppress servers that are down when site routers are down (thus servers are unreachable). Since i'm still on v10 SP1 i don't use the new dependency method (something I am really looking forward to using). The key here is the logic. Remember that the conditions are checked across the…
    in Do Alert Suppression's really work? (9.5.1) Comment by LGentile January 2011
  • Me and the members of our support team have gone back and forth on this issue. I'll summarize our love/hate relationship, but know that I agree with SW's direction of moving all to the Web console in terms of development. - Having 30+ people log into multiple polling servers was horrible. The Web console fixed this. One…
    in Disappointed with some of the changes to NPM 10.1.1 Comment by LGentile January 2011
  • Here is an example of my disk alert: And OID: Basically, anything outside of "online" is what we look for. I always use Status/Numeric status. I have seen some come back with text, so i included the text fields as well for 'failed' although they are rare. We have a lot of different ProLiant models, but this has proven to…
    in Advanced Alert - HP device poller Comment by LGentile January 2011
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