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Is it still planned for early 2009 for Server 2008 support. We too are moving to Server 2008 very quickly.

I agree, would very much like this option

Yes, for dependencies they are monitors.

OK thanks for the help

1. I would like to be able to see a list of devices. Devices that have downed monitors would be placed at the top (Still color coded if possible). Then maybe you could click on the device to drill down and see the monitors for that Device. 2. Option to disable/suspend/re-enable/unsuspend for a monitor or device would be…

I didnt note that we are running it on Server 2003...if you go Server 2008 route you probably need to assign it 4 GB ram instead of 2 GB.

Agree with you on that Sam. Dont know much about Orion since i use IPMonitor but as long as you know the MIBs you should be able to monitor just about anything you want on the ESX box. I also use VirtualCenter and it does do much more than just monitor usage on the box(es) so i dont really see how you could compare the…

For IPMon 9 it is under the CONFIGURATION tab and called Alert List. That what you looking for?

Thank You

Was jsut wondering if there was any information you could share. Would like to see AD Authentication, Backup SMTP server, and Server 2008 support. Being able to edit the Map Icons and maybe a built in SMTP server would also be nice. Thanks for the info.

Where do you right-click on the icon at. When i go to "Edit Map" I cant right-click on any of the icons. Is there somewhere else to modify the icons at?

Are there any plans to have support for Blackberry's in the future for IPMonitor? based on your response...are Blackberrys Supported for Orion? Thanks

Question about the 1st thing. If you guys are workign on using Windows Credentials...does this also mean that each user will have the ability to customize the home page to there liking per profile or will everyone still see the same thing across the board?

You can do this using SNMP. We use HP servers so we can use their monitoring software installed on the server and use IPMonitor to monitor the MIBs for the HD status.

Dont know of a real easy way to do this but there is a way. You can have the alert setup to run an external process. You can then make a bat file (which is the eternal process) that would then tracert the IP address and send the result of the tracert to a file (by using >C:\example.txt) and have the last command in the bat…

You will need somekind of software loaded on the machine that monitors that and responds to SNMP polling or traps. In our case we use HP servers and have the HP Insight software running on them that allows us to monitor the Hardware status via SNMP.

JD, I am running IPMonitor 10.6 in a VM and have been for years with no problems at all (even pre ver 10). Dont know how many monitors you are needing but we currenty use a little over 1000 monitors and i have assigned 1 CPU with 2 GB Ram and all works well. If you plan to keep history for reporting then you need to size…

Setup the Ping monitor as the dependency...this way if PING goes down you dont get alerted for everything else on that device. Although this works pretty good there is always the chance that the timing of another monitor will go down before the ping will so its not a 100% sure-fire way of getting what you want but it does…

Yes, you can go to the "Devices" tab the select down arrow on the "Edit" button then "Mass Edit" then select "monitor properties". Here you will be able to make filter rules that will bring up which monitors you want to edit and replace existing rules with the new rules you would like. Example: All my MEMORY monitors have…

I have. I did an inplace upgrade and all went well. I have exchange, SQL, tons of SNMP, and ping monitors and i didnt have an issue with any of them...at least that i can tell so far. I do not use any WMI monitors so i can answer for that.

Did the server reboot before this happened? I had the same problem with two of our Server 2000 boxes and it happened when they rebooted. I would have to go into the monitor and click the "Select" button to reselect the CPU again. For some reason after reboot something would happen to where the id changed or something and I…

1. No the devices you are wanting to monitor do not have to have IPMonitor installed. You only need that installed on the machine you want to monitor from. All the client machines/appliance/etc just need to be setup to use RPC/WMI or SNMP. For best results i would use SNMP, it uses less resources than RPC/WMI and is…

If you are using ESXi you are pretty limited on snmp polling. I use IPMonitor for Ping and Bandwidth testing on all my interfaces for our VMWare environment but beyond that I use vCenter to do all the monitoring and just have vCenter send the alerts (snmp traps) through IPMonitor so all of our alert emails come from one…

I use SNMP as well. I used to get those errors randomly but they have not happened in a long time now after upgrading to IPMon 9. WMI uses more resources so i stick with snmp since its lightweight.

No redundant mail servers that i know of built in. You could just load the SMTP service on the Windows Server box that runs the IPMonitor load itself and let that box send out the emails. If your exchange is down just make sure you also send alerts to an alternate external account. I use a blackberry so I have alerts sent…

I would double check to make sure you have the SMTP information in correctly and that their is no firewall blocking the ports for it from the IPMonitor mahcine.

Yes, mine does the same thing...nothing. You would think it would show you all your disabled devices.

You can use SNMP for some counters. Look at this Microsoft page and it will show you the counters available. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/4a168955-4982-44d5-8a18-e252d37a3557.mspx?mfr=true

It shows the bandwidth usage from high to low not in order of device name. In the example you gave the device you pointed out just happend to be using the correct bandwitdh amount that put it in the order you wanted. Once the bandwidth amount changes the Nics will move wherever necessary to to fit in the list of usage from…

I would move away from RPC/WMI monitoring and use SNMP to monitor as much as possible. I too used to get weird errors like these and moved to SNMP and have not had any problems since with my monitors.