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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 showing a bad status. Everything else is working ok - I've verified this is the source host of the bad p...

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 every 5-10 minutes depending on how "remote" they are. And pretty much everything is monitored 24x...

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 minutes during this time, but I haven't timed it for exact numbers. The quad xeon database has other stuff on...

> 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.


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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 this backup. The database server is a Quad Xeon box, and Hostmonitor is running on a dual 2.4ghz. I doub...

>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 operational mode. No, this is not what I am talking about. We log via ODBC to MSSQL. When that SQL datab...

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 other day, yet the service was still running. Hostmonitor also hangs every time we do our SQL backup an...

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, which isn't an option.

Oh well -

Greg

"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 launching a vbscript to do WMI calls - you still have to launch the console. I'm betting HM 4.0 will take...

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, we'd have to auto-login the box as a domain admin. Not desireable. 2) If I configure hostmon's servic...

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 week when our on-call rotates. Our concern with using a distribution list that we maintain is that it...

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 regexp or sed on it to see if the user in question is there. Performance counters only relay connection coun...

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, let me know.

Thanks -
Greg