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  • Hi Andrew Depending on how serious you want to get, another approach is to attach a GSM modem for critical out-of-band alerts and set up an external round-trip email test using the POP3 user experience monitor and an external email address (say, at Gmail) that auto-forwards back to an internal address that is monitored by…
    in Can IPMonitor send a daily email out ? Comment by simonpt July 2010
  • Hi Shane I logged a call re. this with SolarWinds support back in March. Here is the response: A bug has been filed with our Development team in regards to this issue. Sure there be any progress in regards to this bug, you will be notified by email. In the meantime, you could use the following work-around: - Instead of…
    in Group Report using Smart Groups not working Comment by simonpt June 2008
  • Hi ESD Have you seen this post? Does it provide what you want? Rgds, Simon
    in Tag help for alerting Comment by simonpt January 2011
  • I managed to get ours working well using Peter Cooper's suggestion on this thread. Basically you set your dependencies to trigger before the other monitors do. HTH Rgds, Simon
    in Dependencies Comment by simonpt May 2009
  • I've submitted a support case for this issue. Will post the outcome back here.
    in Problem creating SmartGroup based on custom tags Comment by simonpt October 2008
  • Good point, wildblue. I'm seeing the same issue in 9.0.1. The dashboard's 'Top 10 Devices by Ping' shows each device's response time but you can't seem to set any thresholding or alarms on response time (or latency). You could have a device that is returning 800ms ping responses but you wouldn't know it unless you were…
    in Ping latency Comment by simonpt June 2008
  • There's no built-in way to do this in ipMonitor. I guess if you were very keen you could do a custom SNMP monitor for every interface and examine ifOperStatus (1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.8) -- 1 for up, 2 for down. I've requested that a built-in monitor that tracks interface up/down status be added. I'm told this is being…
    in POLLING INTERFACES FOR UP/DOWN STATUS Comment by simonpt December 2008
  • @jwashburn: We're using email for standard alerts but for critical alerts (ie. ERP system down) we employ out-of-band alerting via a GSM modem. If our mail system, SMTP gateway or ISP connection go down, we still get alerted.
    in Redundant Mail Servers for alerts Comment by simonpt October 2008
  • Check this thread for details on what SNMP OIDs to query for an HP server's health status. If you're not familiar with how to create a monitor for this, look up the "SNMP - User Experience" monitor on Page 135 of the Administrator Guide. HTH Rgds, Simon
    in HP Servers Hardware Failure Monitoring? Comment by simonpt March 2009
  • drcheeves Please see this thread which discusses the issue of IPM v10 no longer displaying the device name in various places. Rgds, Simon
    in Device Name in Reports? Comment by simonpt January 2010
  • I think there is a way to achieve this without any external code. I've tested it with IPM9 so it may also work with IPM8.5. * Create a Custom SNMP monitor for the server. * Set the OID to 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 (seems to do this by default). This is the SNMPv2 sysUpTime MIB value. * Under Analysis of Test Results, Analyze the…
    in Monitoring a servers uptime Comment by simonpt July 2008
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