In some cases, you may find it necessary to be notified when a server or network device is available as opposed to unavailable. By selecting this option, a successful attempt on the device will trigger the alerts and a failure will simply continue on to the next monitored device. Suspend Sentry Select this option to suspend this monitoring option indefinitely. No monitoring or alerting will be performed on this entry until the suspend flag has been removed. You can easily identify suspended machines in the item list as identified by the yellow triangular warning icon.
Some systems require a more or less frequent monitoring.
In order to decrease network overhead, you scan select to have IPSentry skip a monitoring entry for the defined number of cycles. Then, you must add-in the amount of time consumed to complete an entire cycle and multiply that times this value. While editing the Web1 configuration, you would select Router1 for this field. This would cause Web1 to be skipped whenever there is a failure at Router1. If the entry on which this item depends is in a failure status, this item will be skipped yet the failure counters will be incremented.