UltraMon Response Times

[darren-mc]

I have just finished a migration from DooNetwork...thinking that UltraMon would make my HS installation a bit more responsive...and indeed it does.


However, the issue I have is that the plugin seems to take a long while to detect the lack presence of PC's. When a PC does offline or troubled it seems to take a while before I can issue the command:

if hs.IsOffByName ("Utlramon Main Server") then...

and get the server to be detected off.


I set all the poll rates as low as I could...

I know I am missing something but what?

Cheers,

Darren

[Ultrajones]

You can detect the change of a device quicker by using DeviceValueByName. Just test if the value is <= -1

Valid device statuses are:

• Unknown - Device value of 0 (Not yet tested)
• OnLine - Device value of 1 (1 or more consecutive ping successes)
• Troubled - Device value of -1 to -5 (1 to 5 consecutive failures)
• OffLine - Device value of -6 (6 or more consecutive failures)

Regards,
Ultrajones

[darren-mc]

thanks for this...I knew it had to be simple..

[darren-mc]

Thanks for this its much better now...but is there anyway to speed the response up.

I have set the check interval to 1 but it still seems slow to acknowledege there is an issue.

thanks

Darren

[Ultrajones]

If you have the checks set for 1 minute, then you should be able to determine if device is in a troubled status in about 1 minute (depending on the number of devices you have defined in UltraMon). Are you experiencing different behavior?

Regards,
Ultrajones

[darren-mc]

You can detect the change of a device quicker by using DeviceValueByName. Just test if the value is <= -1

Valid device statuses are:

• Unknown - Device value of 0 (Not yet tested)
• OnLine - Device value of 1 (1 or more consecutive ping successes)
• Troubled - Device value of -1 to -5 (1 to 5 consecutive failures)
• OffLine - Device value of -6 (6 or more consecutive failures)

Regards,
Ultrajones

When I execute the following code:

hs.DeviceValue ("UltraMon Plugin mcentral")

on a device which listed in the GUI as being on-line

I get a device value of 0

This has only started to happen with the new version?

Can you help.

Thanks

Darren

[Ultrajones]

You must use the hs.DeviceValueByName() script function to get the device value by its location/name. The argument for hs.DeviceValue is the house/unit code.

Regards,
Ultrajones

[darren-mc]

I'll post a HS ticket...

[Ultrajones]

Wait... Please re-read my response.

[darren-mc]

sorry late night here....should be asleep....


Sorted....Thanks