Is there a method for detecting if an automate agent is online or offline?

What I'm trying to do is to automate a way to notify myself if an agent is not communicating to the server for some reason. In order to do that, I need to be able to detect when the server loses communication with any of its agents.

Thanks.

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maybe here?

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Bart van Lagen
ICT Department.
St Jansdal Hospital
Harderwijk, Netherlands
Automate 7.1.1.0 / BPA 7.1.1.0
Windows 2003SP2SRV

This seems to be easy, but it's not. When you build functionality for checking for disconnected agents, this functionality is stored in a task, and tasks are always executed on an agent. So, it the agent you're running this functionality on is disconnected, the check will never run. So the BPA server should have some functionality to report disconnected agents by mail or eventlog.
But it would be nice to have a possibility to query the server from the agent: IsAgentRunning( "B")?

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Bart van Lagen
ICT Department.
St Jansdal Hospital
Harderwijk, Netherlands
Automate 7.1.1.0 / BPA 7.1.1.0
Windows 2003SP2SRV


Edited: 09/02/2008 at 09:07 AM by Bart van Lagen

I agree.

I was thinking of something like an API or an executable (or even BPAS.exe with a parameter) that gives the information about the agents (i.e. whether they're still connected, etc.)

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I have added this into our ITS database:

http://www.networkautomation.c...ssueid=a20089384823215


-Leonard

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Is this already addressed on version 10.2.0.6?

If we can detect if the agent is down we can notifiy the corresponding team to check if agent if its down or up. With this we can send an email notification that assistance is needed.

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Hello,

If you have multiple agents you can setup a scenario where you have each agent ping the other to make sure they are up and running.

We do have a feature request regarding this scenario in our DB.

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