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From: hobbit-return-6178-david=user-9e293dd11111@xymon.invalid [mailto:hobbit-return-6178-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn.
dk] On Behalf Of Rob MacGregor
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:03 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring a laptop
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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Rob MacGregor
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche