Network Monitor Project Status

conor1368 · 2016-10-14T05:48:59.000Z

I second the fact that this release seems more stable, alerts are clearing nicely. Thanks Tim!

markwitteveen · 2016-10-14T06:31:56.000Z

Wide-Vean:

Tim (Spiceworks):

Both the app server and the event processor use Java. I’m not concerned with Java usage going up to 65% of CPU, because that means the app is doing work. You can’t really perform work on a computer without using CPU resources

Otherwise, I appreciate the feedback from everyone. Obviously there’s a lot of issues that we can’t reproduce back here at Spiceworks, so it’s going to be slow going trying to get everything fixed.

I have changes some setting history is now saved for 21 devices.

CPU Load of the monitoring server is now ok but I think it is still very high.

It’s not a high priority or problem but I hope you will add it to a list for later.

Is there a way to save the history with usage of less CPU power.

After I disabled the Monitoring of the services on 8 servers the CPU load went from 90% to about 50%.

It looks like the CPU load is very busy checking the services.

For now disabled checking the services because the load of the CPU SpiceWorks Monitor server

alexhughes2 · 2016-10-17T07:49:00.000Z

Does the “fixed alerts not clearing” issue refer to the alerts shown in the spiceworks hub itself or the alert emails? Because we are repeatedly running into issues where an alert will come up, be cleared on the netmonitor interface but still wrongly send us hourly emails. The only fixes are to either restart the processes (manually I might add as the service restart from the tray icon never works) or delete that monitor and re-add it.

timgittos-spiceworks · 2016-10-17T14:05:52.000Z

Alex3024:

Does the “fixed alerts not clearing” issue refer to the alerts shown in the spiceworks hub itself or the alert emails? Because we are repeatedly running into issues where an alert will come up, be cleared on the netmonitor interface but still wrongly send us hourly emails. The only fixes are to either restart the processes (manually I might add as the service restart from the tray icon never works) or delete that monitor and re-add it.

It should fix that issue, yes. It should also fix the service restart from the tray icon.

danielosterberg · 2016-11-04T08:16:47.000Z

Tim, any news for us?

conwaywharton7098 · 2016-11-04T12:29:40.000Z

Just a quick update. I do still get some clearing notifications after the maintenance period. I suspect that the maintenance period just turns off the notifications - so, if there is an active alert at the end of the maintenance window, you don’t get a notification of the alert, but you do get one of it being cleared. I notice that the timestamp on these notifications is usually 1-5 minutes after the maintenance window. I do have to restart the service occasionally when I log into the window in the morning, but not at any regular interval. Other than that, this version seems very stable and works well.

stevencook4 · 2016-11-04T19:02:16.000Z

Also, as an aside…

…can we perhaps find a way to put the current build # or version # on the download page, somewhere?

Or perhaps include the build # as part of the filename?

A big graphic “VERSION 1.5” doesn’t really tell anyone that a new build is available.

Cheers,

hubington · 2016-12-08T10:07:52.000Z

@Tim

I’m still on the previous version, I reboot it every now and then and end task the reinvent processes when I do which has been working for me. This morning load up the dashboard to “We’re sorry, something went wrong” nothing else.

restart the processes, same thing

I can’t restart the box are there are other processes running on it that I have to schedule down time for, any logs I can check to find out what has gone wrong to correct it?

markpimperton · 2016-12-08T10:19:45.000Z

Hubington:

@Tim

I’m still on the previous version, I reboot it every now and then and end task the reinvent processes when I do which has been working for me. This morning load up the dashboard to “We’re sorry, something went wrong” nothing else.

restart the processes, same thing

I can’t restart the box are there are other processes running on it that I have to schedule down time for, any logs I can check to find out what has gone wrong to correct it?

I think Spiceworks HQ is broken again. Others are having the same problem.

Network Monitor "We're sorry, but something went wrong" Spiceworks Support

[2016-10-04_17_39-We_re_sorry__but_something_went_wrong_(500).jpg]FINAL UPDATE: The issue has been resolved. UPDATE 10/5/2016 7:45 PST: There is an active problem on Spiceworks HQ’s end that is preventing anyone running Network Monitor from logging in. Just ran into this problem today, but haven’t opened Network Monitor since last week so no clue how long the problem has been going on. After attempting to log in to Network Monitor I get a screen that just says “We’re sorry, but something w…

danielosterberg · 2016-12-08T11:32:21.000Z

Mark8081:

Hubington:

@Tim

I’m still on the previous version, I reboot it every now and then and end task the reinvent processes when I do which has been working for me. This morning load up the dashboard to “We’re sorry, something went wrong” nothing else.

restart the processes, same thing

I can’t restart the box are there are other processes running on it that I have to schedule down time for, any logs I can check to find out what has gone wrong to correct it?

I think Spiceworks HQ is broken again. Others are having the same problem.
Network Monitor "We're sorry, but something went wrong"

Use the latest 1.4 instead of 1.5… that is what I do and it works much better.

markpimperton · 2016-12-08T11:36:57.000Z

MrDanne - I don’t think it’s an issue with a specific version. It looks like a repeat of the problem in October when nobody could authenticate because of Spiceworks HQ being broken.

Is your Network Monitor OK today?

danielosterberg · 2016-12-08T11:48:41.000Z

Yes and no, I must sometimes restart Spice Monitoring Service… But other than that it works fine.

1.5 is unusable

conwaywharton7098 · 2016-12-08T12:43:12.000Z

I’m on the 1.5. If I do a restart, I get the same message. However, I have another computer that was running at the time and it is working fine. However, if I try to access the page anew from another computer, I get the"Something went wrong" message.

@connerhansen @francois-sw

billroland · 2016-12-08T17:54:37.000Z

MrDanne:

Mark8081:

Hubington:

@Tim

I’m still on the previous version, I reboot it every now and then and end task the reinvent processes when I do which has been working for me. This morning load up the dashboard to “We’re sorry, something went wrong” nothing else.

restart the processes, same thing

I can’t restart the box are there are other processes running on it that I have to schedule down time for, any logs I can check to find out what has gone wrong to correct it?

I think Spiceworks HQ is broken again. Others are having the same problem.
Network Monitor "We're sorry, but something went wrong"

Use the latest 1.4 instead of 1.5… that is what I do and it works much better.

Where can one get the latest 1.4 instead of 1.5? I have looked all around and I cannot find it. Thanks in advance.

@danielosterberg

francois-sw · 2016-12-09T16:26:12.000Z

Where can one get the latest 1.4 instead of 1.5? I have looked all around and I cannot find it. Thanks in advance.

Support should be able to help you: support@spiceworks.com

hubington · 2016-12-15T08:56:38.000Z

Is there still work going on for this to get new versions out as after a good start things seem to have fallen quiet again?

danielosterberg · 2016-12-15T09:01:06.000Z

Looks like all Spiceworks development is on hold… Last update on SW is in September with version 7.5.00093

Really strange

lars-j · 2017-01-27T13:33:58.000Z

Is Spiceworks dying? or just have “problems”?

Does anybody know that is going on?

francois-sw · 2017-01-27T14:19:16.000Z

Hi Shade, nothing dying, just re balancing workload.

See more here Is Spiceworks dead?

hubington · 2017-06-28T12:37:30.000Z

in light of the announce that there will not be future development of the spiceworks network monitor (SNM) app I thought I would share my alternative. Network monitor stopped working for me for no apparent reason back in Feb and so face with needing to reinstall I looked at alternatives. The one I went with is Observium, it’s not as easy to setup as SNM but it isn’t exactly rocket science. It runs on Lunix (I use Centos 7) so if you don’t have any familiarity with it then setup would take a little longer, but there are guides on the web and the observium install is quite well documented.

It’s more involved to set up and requires snmp configured on the target hosts so again more involved to get going.

there is a free version, that’s what I’m running.

Alerts can be setup and users assisgned on an alert by alert basis, it will monitor Windows, Linux and network gear. I now get disk stats from my Synololgy NAS too which I didn’t under SNM.

It’s not as pretty as SNM and there are parts of the dashboard I miss so if SNM is running for you and you’re happy with it then you probably want to stick with it, if you find it wanting in some areas (SNM never reported NIC stats on my Bonded NICs) or are seeing stability issues though then this is a good alternative. There is a demo running on their website if you want to look at what you would be leaping to.