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"The workaround is to just schedule the maintenance to run one hour early" Wow, not much of a workaround, is it? What if you have lots of schedules? Besides, having incorrect daylight saving rules also throws off reporting data and graphs by an hour which creates lots of confusion when trying to troubleshoot network…

Just to throw my 2 cents in - I've mentioned this elsewhere - I'd really like to see the scan come up with status monitors (up/down) for the interfaces the same way that the bandwidth monitors come up. +1. I've also asked for this one before. It seems crazy that a network monitoring solution doesn't by default tell you…

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Hi Chris Thanks very much for your reply. I'll see about tracking down a Multitech locally. Split Second Graphs (or SSGs) appear to me to take polled network monitoring to a new level. If you're looking at, say, a bandwidth monitor that has exceeded the thresholds, you have to wait until the next 300 second poll before you…

Hi Peter Yeah, it looks like scheduling different actions based on time of day will be relatively straightforward. What I'm still struggling with his how to organise devices and monitors within alerts. Going back to my original post, am I going to have to remove the device from Alert A and manually add back in all the…

Hi Mark Until this post I didn't realise that ipMonitor doesn't monitor the up/down status of interfaces. Every other product I've used does this automatically when you discover a device and it doesn't involve pinging the interface -- it's a simple SNMP poll of the interface table. Can this please be added to the wishlist?…

Chris Thats sounds good too. Will be interesting to hear if that meets blizejr's requirements or if ipMonitor needs to go a step further and offer for the alias to be used when generating the monitor name. Rgds, Simon

Those options are really only important if you are importing an entire system configuration and you want to import just, say, the monitors. Since you're only importing one specific monitor or device, they aren't meaningful. You can safely leave them at their default settings.

Thanks Mark. I appreciate your assistance.

Hi Peter That's fanastic! I just needed to change 'hub_sw' to 'router' and it worked perfectly. Thanks very much. Do you have a good regex guide you would recommend? I'm familiar with Perl regexs but these ones are quite different. Thanks - Simon

Thanks Mark. Ticket now submitted.

Hi Chris Where in the portal should we see the update? It's not listed under Product Updates > Archived Service Packs. BTW, thanks for adding the daylight saving fix! Rgds, Simon

Hi Peter I'll check that out and see if DNS is to blame. Thanks for all your excellent help, Regards, Simon 

Do you have ipMonitor configured to ping the devices' IP addresses or FQDNs? If the latter, check this thread to see if it helps.

Nagucci, has Egypt's daylight saving rule recently changed? If so, from my experience, it may take a while for this to be correctly reflected in ipMonitor. Brandon, is there a case here for ipMonitor to utilise the host operating system's daylight saving rules, instead of having its own? Microsoft usually patch the OS…

The hosts file that you imported, is that also the active hosts file on the ipMonitor server? If not, that could explain why ipMonitor is not resolving IP addresses back to host names. Rgds, Simon

ipMonitor is doing a DNS reverse lookup on your IP address to give the device a friendly name. That's fine -- you'll want your devices to have meaningful names instead of IP addresses. Simply edit a monitor and change the IP Address / Domain Name from the FQDN to the IP address. To do this on all monitors for a device,…

Good tip! Chris, what is the long-term fix for this? Using smart groups is brilliant for managing alerts on many monitors. Will Solarwinds officially discourage their use in this way or will they be improved to work better with alerts? Thanks - Simon

Those are the objects that are returned when you query the OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.1. They're simply useful to check that SNMP is working okay. Do you get any corresponding values returned with these objects? If you don't, then recheck your AS/400's SNMP configuration. If it helps, these are the commands we've used to configure…

I see process names instead of just 1s and 0s under value. Can you please post a screenshot of this?

Found another place that doesn't display device names: 4. SmartGroups that contain monitors. Both when displaying them and when editing them and clicking preview. For example: Not very helpful, is it?

I'm now trying to do a Mass Edit to remove device names from our monitor names. They are currently in the format "[device-name][instance][type]" and I want to change them to "instance type", eg. "[server.domain.com][Processor 1][CPU]" will become "Processor 1 CPU". Changing the second "][" to a space and removing the…

Hi Peter Do you recommend the values given in that document? They're quite a bit smaller than the default values, aren't they? Rgds, Simon

Hi Chris I logged a case in February (# 30707) for a similar problem where reports don't reset to the last 60 minutes/last 24 hours without logging out/logging back in. Back then I was advised that it was a known issue that would be fixed in the next release. Perhaps resolution of this issue is not far away now? Rgds, Simon

We've just taken delivery of a MultiTech GSM modem and I can't get it to work properly with ipMonitor 9.0.1. I can connect to it with HyperTerminal at 115200 baud, 8, N, 1 and issue AT commands successfully, but when I force a test from the SMS text pager action I get this most of the time: 0.003 secs Sent ..ATE0Q0.AT.. 1B…

I think you just made an excellent case for V2P'ing your ipMonitor system. 1) You can easily attach a serial/USB GSM modem to a physical server/desktop. 2) Your ipMonitor system is then not so heavily dependent on the infrastructure that you're trying to monitor. If you're serious about effectively monitoring your…

Hi Chris Sure. It's a MultiTech MultiModem GRPS MTCBA-G-F1. We had some problems with getting it to communicate with our ipMonitor server but Peter helped us here. Rgds, Simon

Sorry it doesn't provide an immediate answer, but thanks for bumping it. The more customers that raise this as an issue, the better.

My thoughts on Solarwinds and what they have done to what was a great product are well documented in this forum. To their credit, they've provided an upgrade path to Orion, but their special offer doesn't include APM so we would lose a lot of the application monitoring we currently do with IPM. The next logical step for…

Hi Mark Thanks for your reply. Simon- Did you setup the alert via this?https://support.ipmonitor.com/helps/9b4d3ed2f0284655b358fd0fbea4c7f4.aspx No, I haven't got that far. Still trying to choose which modem to buy. In house, we are using the following modem: GSM/GPRS called “M2M Express” from Bluetree. The technical…