Monitoring a laptop

You probably need to remove the noping, dialup will make the network tests
go clear if they fail, but for disk, etc. to go clear, I _think_ they
require the ping test to fail, not be clear all the time.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

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

Ping has remained clear, but CPU, Disk, Memory, etc went purple.

Dave

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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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