Ping has remained clear, but CPU, Disk, Memory, etc went purple.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit-return-6178-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit-return-6178-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn. dk] On Behalf Of Rob MacGregor Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:03 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring a laptop
On 3/31/06, David Gilmore <david at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:
I was thinking of monitoring employee laptops, and maybe even desktops, with hobbit. I added a group to my hosts file
with the DIAL
tag, created a line in the hosts file 0.0.0.0 mylaptop.mydomain.local
noping. I then installed a client on the laptop and just
set it to monitor the basics (CPU, Disk, Memory). I then shut down the laptop and took it home. Thirty minutes later I checked my hobbit pages from my home desktop and saw that the status of the client was set to purple. I obviously misunderstood the functionality of the DIALUP tag. Is it possible to monitor a device that would only check in a couple of times a day? I know I could set specific alerts thresholds for the laptop, but was hoping there might be a "universal" solution.
Maybe the "noping" is the problem (I'd check, but I'm not in work right now :>). Certainly the boxes I tag with "dialup" go clear when the ping check fails, not purple.
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