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When 'Treat unknown as bad' option is disabled, it starts count from 1, when tests changes status from "Bad" to "Unknown" (or from "Unknown" to "Bad"). If the o ...

It doesn't seem to be possible to set the alert 2b. above. When I go to select "Action depends on bad one", only standard alerts are listed, the new advanced alert isn't available to select ...

Just one quick extra question:
('%SimpleStatus%'=='UNKNOWN') and (%Recurrences%==3)
Does this Recurrences value count unknowns when the 'Treat unknown as bad' setting is unchecked? Our recurrence c ...

You have to disable "Treat Unknown status as Bad" option for the test" and use "Action depends on "bad" one" option for the "Good" action..
Thanks for t ...

Hi,

We're getting odd behaviour when tests return 'unknown' status, is there any way we can get around this?

We have a standard alert profile for nearly all of our tests, it sends a simple e-mai ...

Many thanks Max, and thanks for such a quick response.

I guess there's no huge rush to update the documentation - the problem's documented here now if anyone else runs into it

Sweet, that works perfectly.

For future reference, any chance you could either document that in the SNMP help area, or put a link in the SNMP test area to the SNMP options?

Hi,

We've just upgraded to Hostmon Professional to get the MIB Browser and do our first SNMP tests. I'm having problems querying the values I want however.

The two values I need to read are in ...

I only want to use it on some tests, but would be nice to have it as a standard option.

Your reply also doesn't work as a work-around, let me try to explain:

I already have alerts that start on ...

Could I request an additional feature as well as the 'treat unknown as bad'.

This would be "ignore unknown results", or "treat unknown as last result".

ie. If the test was p ...

Sorry, we're running HostMonitor 5.34 and this is for the MS SQL Server test.

Every so often our SQL test report an access violation generating a false positive in HostMonitor. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to the error, it happens every day or so and there are no error ...

Since implementing SMS alerts for a few events, we've spotted that e-mails are not always sent when an alert is logged in Hostmonitor.

This morning we've received half a dozen SMS notifications but ...

Yeah, I guess you're right - synchronous mode would require a queuing engine inside hostmonitor and that's a whole new ball game, especially if you have a lot of tests.

I've updated my script so it ...

We're using hostmonitor to check the temperature of our server room and have configured it to send SMS messages to our two network admins if the temperature exceeds our limits. We're finding that we ...