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We use a service account that hostmonitor uses for tests. I'm tracking bad passwords coming from the hostmonitor server (nothing else is on this server) but i'm not having any tests show anything sho ...

You are right, the indexes are huge (8.6gb), so we really only have about 4.2gb of data for the month.

I'll see if we really need the 3 indexes that we have.

Greg

Currently, we have 3575 tests exactly, altough probably up to 15-30 of those are disabled.

The dependancies are heavily used, and most tests that are local go every 3 minutes. Remote tests go ever ...

I just checked, we're down to just keeping 1 month of data, which after a dbcc shrink database brings it down to 12gb. At 8pm, we do a backup and re-index.

Hostmonitor is frozen for about 30 minut ...

> IMHO possible solution can be some option like "Disable ODBC logging for [M] min in case of [N] consecutive errors".

This sounds like a great idea.

Thanks,

Greg

I will check on the time out, didn't see that at first, but it still doesn't help if the DB server is down.

[ This Message was edited by: agressiv on 2003-07-18 13:10 ]

Our database is about 45gb, which is only about 2-3 months worth of data. We are dumping to .BAK files, not using some "hot" online backup. Hostmonitor does not function when it's doing th ...

>Do you use MS SQL test? What version of MS SQL client do you use? Clients v. 6.5 and 2000 without SP (may be some other versions) have bug that can crash application when server is not in normal o ...

We have several licenses for hostmonitor, and we use hostmonitor to monitor the peers. Since there is no built-in function, we use the "check service" routine.

Well, hostmonitor hung the ...

The tray icon doesn't appear if you run the service with an account other than LocalSystem - we wouldn't be able to make any changes, so the only other alternative would be to not run it as a service, ...

"Now all "run external program" actions/methods use an account that was specified for the service (if HostMonitor running as Win32 service)"

FYI, this still doesn't work when la ...

I still have this problem where WMI calls within VBScript still run as the System account, even though all of hostmonitor's tests are run with a Domain Admin.

1) If I don't run Hostmon as a service ...

Right now, we have 2 floating pagers which we send critical pages to. All of the support staff have cell phones which can take pages like the pager, but it would be tedious to change the alerts each ...

There are some command-line utilities to get the current logged in users:

http://www.clusteresis.com/itm00006.htm

I use tsquery, but you'll have to put the output in a flat file and do like a re ...

Like I said, we wouldn't get the tray icon if we ran the service with Domain Admin, so we'd be better off running it as a console app, but I'm not too key on that.

If you find another workaround, l ...