On 3/31/06, David Gilmore <user-70507ff7198d@xymon.invalid> 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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