If an element has multiple probes and you only want to be notified when all of the probes go down or return to up state, is there a way to do that with notification?
I’m using pings and specific defined probes for each element in the network. However, I’m finding that pings are sometimes timing out (UDP packets so not gauranteed) and go down but the other probe for the unit is still up. Thus, I don’t want to be notified until both ping and the second probe go down or come up.
Normis/Uldis?
I guess the only way to do this is create another probe and select logic and add each the other probes to it. Not exactly what I want but I guess its better than false reports (can’t tell which probe is down with this method). Would be nice to hav an option on the notification tab to OR all probes for Down state.
First of all you should think about tuning ‘Probe Down Count’ for your
frequently failing ping probe to eliminate false alarms.
You can make logic probe with type ‘or’ and add all other services to it and
add all those services in regular way also, but disable notifications for
them. That would result in double probing, but would do what you want.
We are thinking about adding service dependencies as requested here
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/service-dependencies/12938/1
yea, dependencies on services would be an very very great feature!
Thanks Uldis. What do you suggest for probe count down? Basically, I’m having issues with every element in the network with ping timeouts. It’s not an issue with the elements. The current config is:
Probe interval: 1 minute
Probe timeout: 10 seconds
Probe downcount: 5
That should try a 5 probes spaced a minute a part before it declares it down, correct? If it fails 5 probes, then making it larger isn’t going to help. The only thing that is failing is pings. No other probe has false failures. The failures are occurring on APC UPSs, Trango equipment, Mikrotik routers, Netopia routers, etc. As soon as I do a reprobe, the ping works fine. This is with v2Beta12