Monitor hosts without any failure indications

[fkemmerer]

I am currently evaluating HostMonitor for an application that requires me to determine the up/down status of a number of windows client PCs. At any given time, some will always be down. I'd like to have a subset of my monitor tests check these hosts via ping or some other mechanism but not have an red indications beyond the folder containing them - in particular I'd like these PCs to not generate any red status on the tray icon so I can disern real network problems beyond these machines. How can I do this?

[Marcus]

Select "reverse alert" in the test. The test will become red when the pc comes 'UP'.

[KS-Soft]

If some hosts ALWAYS down, what the reason to monitor them?
If normal status is "down" but sometimes host can be alive and this situation is not normal, Marcus is right - use "Reverse alert" option.

Regards
Alex

[fkemmerer]

Alex,

The hosts that I want to monitor aren't always down. They May be up or down at a given time. I want to use Host Monitor to get a summary of this without necessarily turning the group or the overall status of the monitor "red".

[KS-Soft]

I see. Sorry, its impossible in current version.

Regards
Alex

[Marcus]

You could create a custom html page without the pc's you don't want to be alarmed about. Instead of looking at HM's icon, you look at the webpage.