RE: Monitoring NT servers, was paging

["Cotes, Steven" <cotess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You may get a false positive with this.
A few months ago our PDC "hung" and stopped DC'ing
yet it would still answer a ping. Of course our Secondary
Domain Controller thought the Primary was still up so it
didn't step up to the task.
To be really safe, you need to monitor to verify that a service
is running.

 - steve cotes
 - cotess@data-io.com


> Interesting remark about monitoring NT servers.  We had an NT server
> that 
> locked up a couple of times a day.  We ended up writing a CL program
> to ping 
> the NT server every x number of minutes.  If two consecutive pings
> failed it 
> paged us.  We didn't use our paging software for this.  Our paging
> vendor has 
> an email service, if you want to use it.  For example if my paging
> number was 
> 2195551212 I could send email to 2195551212@epage.arch.com and I'll
> get the 
> page.  And we can use the SNDDST command to send email to there.  See 
> http://www.arch.com  
> 
> I'll be glad when IBM comes up with a DID board for the 400.  Then we
> can get 
> rid of that NT server.  We use it for inbound Domino faxing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> jhall@hillmgt.com on 08/26/99 08:33:36 AM
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> Subject:      Re: Pager/ notification system?
> 
> Same Here.  
> You can send email, page, send to a MSGQ, run programs, etc.  on an
> event or lack of an event (i.e. server program is not running).
> We use it to monitor our network routers/bridges with ping.  
> It can also be setup to monitor NT servers (this feature is Extra)
> 
> John Hall 
> Home Sales Co.
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