Monitor Fallbacksystems which should not be powered on

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Hi,

I've got some systems, especially in departments in other countries, which have a backupsystem set up - in case of hardware failure, I'll ask an employee there to simply power it on.

Anyway, it happens from time to time that systems get powered on when I dont want them to - especially the fallback-router gave me some serious headache when getting powered on and firing up its DHCP.

So, naturally, I started monitoring them via ping - but I don't like the fact that a non-responsive ping, which is what I want, gets the alarm counter up.

Is there any way to get the sensor green when the ping fails and red when it's fired up?

thanks.

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Hi,
in general it is not possible to revert the sensor logic. However, there might be a workaround as you could create a reverse ping sensor to get notified if machines are powered on.
Best regards

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Monitor Fallbacksystems which should not be powered on

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