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Hello

Just a quick one, where are most people installing the network monitor?

To be honest i’ve only played with it once in the early beta stage but i didn’t really get any time to play with it.

I’m currently having network issues one our file server, something is causing it to lock up for 5 minutes and it only happens Monday to Friday when the computers or phones are being used.

Would i be best to install this on the file server or my domain controller?

I’m assuming it monitors the host its installed on as well?

My fear would be that the network monitor might hang with the file server.

Sorry if this something similar has been answered already but I couldn’t find it.

Thanks

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Stand alone dedicated box

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even if it is just a re-purposed workstation

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I would agree. I originally had it installed on a VM on one of our main servers, but it triggered a lot more alerts by tying up resources on that server. I’ve had it running on an older laptop without any real problems for quite some time. In general I’d recommend segmenting it away from the systems that you’re really interested in monitoring, If the server fails in a way that takes down the network monitor, you lose those alerts. The same is true if the workstation fails, but I’d rather the workstation running the monitoring software fail for wahtever reason.

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I am running it on a dedicated PC with a large monitor in my office so I can keep an eye on things.

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Also, does this have email notifications, i couldn’t see any settings for it but im positive i got some through on my first beta install.

I’m getting the notification on the bottom right corner but i keep missing it :frowning:

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Running in a hyper-v 2012 vm. I’m not seeing any strain on server resources yet.

@billy3810 - I am getting email alerts without having to configure them.

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Emails go to the email address you used when you registered the app. When you first installed, it asks for your community login, then the second screen has a form to customize the email the app uses, and customize other personal info, name, industry, etc. The emails flow through our community servers so there’s no need to configure email settings.

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Can’t get past the login screen. Keeps telling me bad username or password. I even used the link from the page to reset my password. I can login to Spiceworks with my new password, but not this app.

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David, when you say “the login screen” do you mean /login or /wizard/start? They both look very similar. /wizard/start is the first one you see when you are installing. /login would be when you return to the UI after logging out or come from a different browser, etc.

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I have mine installed on a Hyper-V VM and I’m not noticing any strain on the host server or other VM’s. I gave it 4 processors and 6 gigs of RAM.

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When I said “Stand alone dedicated box” I should have been more clear as I did mean a VM would be fine, just that its role should be dedicated.

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I installed the RC2 Network Monitor on the same re-purposed desktop machine I have dedicated to running Spiceworks. (Dell Optiplex dual core w/ 8GB & Win7Pro). The NM installation added the host machine to the server watchlist by default which was ok with me until I started receiving too many CPU overutilization and spike alerts. I removed those sensors from the machine and then ended up removing the host machine from the watchlist altogether. I really didn’t see any purpose in monitoring the monitoring device - if it goes down I wont be alerted anyway. With both Spiceworks and the Network Monitor running on the same box I was seeing only 46% memory utilization with 8GB. Other than some peculiar behaviors (I will post in another thread) I am satisfied with the performance running both Spiceworks and the Network Monitor on the same machine. I’ll pull the the HDD’s out of my ‘Spicegrinder’ machine and move them to a quad-core if I can free one up in the future.

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