Alerting monitoring

[mrfrosty]

Hi,

Just wondering is there a way to monitor whether or not the "Enable Alerting" option is currently running? The reason I ask this is that I came in today and noticed that Alerting was currently disabled on HostMonitor (7.20) and there had been an issue overnight, it would be nice to have a feature (if not already available) to allow you to auto restart the alerting service after x mins/hours.

Any suggestions to get around this?

Marcus

[KS-Soft Europe]

If you want to monitor alerts are enabled/disabled, you my use "Compare Files" test method with "alert when file contains a specified string" option. You should check for "AlertsDisabled=1" string in "hostmon.ini" file. http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... tm#filecmp
However, if alerts are disabled, HostMonitor will not start any action, assigned to this test.

If you want to be sure alerts are always enabled, you may create a .hms sript file with EnableAlerts command, and use built-in "Scheduler" ("Options" -> "Scheduler") to schedule some alert profile with "Execute HMS Script" action to be performed on regular basis, for instance, every 5 minutes.
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... #actScript

Regards,
Max

[mrfrosty]

Thanks max.

Marcus

[KS-Soft]

Just wondering is there a way to monitor whether or not the "Enable Alerting" option is currently running?

HostMonitor may start actions (e.g. "send e-mail") when somebody stops/starts monitoring and/or disables/enables alerts. Use menu Monitoring -> Pause to setup these options.

The reason I ask this is that I came in today and noticed that Alerting was currently disabled

If several persons have access to system where HostMonitor is running, I would recommend to setup set of permissions for each operator. E.g. you may remove "start/stop monitoring" and "manage action profiles" permissions.
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... #operators

Regards
Alex