Version

Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later

Date

Thursday, 13 June 2024

Summary

Performance-monitoring Relator uses the option ‘Do NOT Apply Rules In This Relator To An Inaccessible Node’ for better performance — reading Windows performance metrics is quite expensive

This is especially true when a machine is offline, because the Rule has to wait to timeout and the long timeout can cause tasks to be cancelled and other issues.

The Relator might use a large Monitoring Group to cover hundreds of Windows machines.

However, some machines cannot be pinged because of firewall settings.

(A cheap ping is executed before the actual expensive performance Rule.)


The failure of the ping cause the Relator to skip for these machines.

One workaround is to create a separate Relator NOT using ‘Do NOT Apply Rules In This Relator To An Inaccessible Node’. But it is a cumbersome and odious approach.

The CMDB-X has been enhanced to have property ‘Ping Blocked’, The default value is No.
When the property is set to Yes, the Relator does not execute the ping and assume the node is up.

Technical Background

N/A

Resolution

Upgrade to Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A or later