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by ArunB
Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:13 pm
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Host Check Problems on Win 2008 R2
Replies: 11
Views: 23073

Thanks Alex, appreciate your help. Hopefully some information will come to light in the coming months that could help with this one.

In the meantime If I find anything more I will post.

Thanks Again,
Arun
by ArunB
Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:03 pm
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Host Check Problems on Win 2008 R2
Replies: 11
Views: 23073

OK, that explains the event log messages. So the Ping tests fail, then I see this other error because reading and writing to c:\windows\hostmon.ini fails. I have since made the hostmonitor account owner of the file, and it seems the errors have now gone away (UAC)? As regards the ping test failures ...
by ArunB
Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:35 pm
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Host Check Problems on Win 2008 R2
Replies: 11
Views: 23073

That is correct. No problems at all updating the mail server. I started monitoring using sysinternals procmon.exe, and when updating global settings (smtp mailer for instance), hostmon.exe updates C:\Program Files (x86)\Hostmonitor\hostmon.ini as expected. I set a few tests to 'reverse alert', archi...
by ArunB
Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:59 pm
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Host Check Problems on Win 2008 R2
Replies: 11
Views: 23073

The problem occurs at random times, with failed ping checks occuring over 1GBps switched LAN as well as various WAN links. I have tried 2000ms timeouts but recieve the same results. When the ping tests are failing I can log on to the hostmonitor server and ping the failed hosts (<1ms replies). Every...
by ArunB
Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:52 pm
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Host Check Problems on Win 2008 R2
Replies: 11
Views: 23073

Oops...:o
The test method is "Ping"
by ArunB
Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:06 am
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Host Check Problems on Win 2008 R2
Replies: 11
Views: 23073

Host Check Problems on Win 2008 R2

Hi All, I'm running HostMonitor v8.32 on Windows 2008 R2 Standard (x64), and am seeing a strange, intermittent problem with Host Check tests. Basically for a short period (<1min), Hostmonitor reports all Host Check tests as BAD (100% of 5 packets lost - 10k). When this occurs hostmonitor logs the be...