HM Crashes

General chat about HostMonitor (all messages posted before March 07, 2003 available here).
Locked
User avatar
Marcus
Posts: 367
Joined: Mon Nov 18, 2002 6:00 pm

Post by Marcus »

Its possible to crash HM in the following way:

1. Create an alert profile, which includes a report generation action for a specified folder.

2. Delete the specified folder

Whenever the action is performed, HM will crash with a dr watson.

Of course it has no sense creating a report for a non existing folder, but when you make a mistake (like me) its hard to find what happened.

Is it possible for HM to include a 'check on startup' option, which will check all settings (just once) and their relationships. This would be convenient to track down your mistake and it would prevent you from starting HM as a service which would crash 'randomly'
KS-Soft
Posts: 13012
Joined: Wed Apr 03, 2002 6:00 pm
Location: USA
Contact:

Post by KS-Soft »

>Is it possible for HM to include a 'check on startup' option, which will check all settings (just once) and their relationships.

HostMonitor checks settings before performing any operation. Its very important because user/script (in future versions: remote user) can remove any resource (e.g. Master test, folder, color scheme, report profile, etc) at any time.

But you are right about this bug. It looks like in one place we forgot about check. Will be fixed in next release (next week).
Thank you for information about the problem

Regards
Alex
Locked