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Agent going into the status of 'Disconnected' when I have not turned off my PC
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The thing to keep in mind is that OutagesIO is just another tool. It automates logging problems but it cannot solve some issues on its own. Meaning, like any other tool, other factors and even other tools sometimes need to be used to find the problem.
Most of the time, the information is enough to know what's going on but sometimes it's just not enough.
I asked about the connection being close to a high level network operator because of the hops and how quickly they get to Arizona where our main network is. However, we can discount that now.
When you have quantifiable IP outages, you'll see them in your reports but in this case, they are mostly disconnections with just one outage, local.
It could be interference but you ruled it out. This implies that there is something other than specifically IP that is causing these problems as in low signals or signal loss or failing cable, interface, even a configuration that's not right but enough that it's working.
I would eliminate the wifi as much as possible first.
Make sure you're not monitoring from a PC connected to a wireless device until you know for sure everything else is good. Meaning, connect your monitoring PC directly to the providers router to eliminate other problems first.@OutagesIO_Support I'm going to set up an email alert to send a notificaton on my iphone when an outage occurs. Gmail can attempt to identify a "High priority only" email. What does the header look like and what is the email address of the sender?
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Just look at any of the emails you've received so far, they are all from the same email servers.
Subject always starts with OutagesIO
Subject: OutagesIO - Agent ID xxxxxx...
From: OutagesIO noreply@outagesio.com
To: "xx@xxl.com" xx@xxl.comSMTP server example;
Return-Path: noreply@outagesio.com
Received: from mx.unrealmachines.com (LHLO mx.unrealmachines.com)
(10.0.0.100) by mx.unrealmachines.com with LMTP; Sat, 18 Mar 2023 01:05:03
-0700 (MST)
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by mx.unrealmachines.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id -
Just look at any of the emails you've received so far, they are all from the same email servers.
Subject always starts with OutagesIO
Subject: OutagesIO - Agent ID xxxxxx...
From: OutagesIO noreply@outagesio.com
To: "xx@xxl.com" xx@xxl.comSMTP server example;
Return-Path: noreply@outagesio.com
Received: from mx.unrealmachines.com (LHLO mx.unrealmachines.com)
(10.0.0.100) by mx.unrealmachines.com with LMTP; Sat, 18 Mar 2023 01:05:03
-0700 (MST)
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by mx.unrealmachines.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id@OutagesIO_Support Is it possible to send a test email message with regards to an outage so that I can test my filter in Gmail.
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Sure, it's done. Sent to the user account email on the application site.
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Sure, it's done. Sent to the user account email on the application site.
@OutagesIO_Support Thanks. Got it and Gmail filter marked it as Important but Gmail will only send notifications to my iPhone if they are considered High Priority. Gmail uses some sort of algorithm to determine if an email is High Priority. It learns from traffic and speed of replies to incoming emails. Guess I'll just see what time will tell. Again, thanks for the try.
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@OutagesIO_Support It's happening again. Disconnected but still have internet access. Tried the ping to tpw.outages.io as recommended. See attached screen shot below. As a side note I found many error messages in my modem log, they were similar to this.
I did a complete clean of all fittings for my modem router all the way back to the cable box on the exterior of the house. That appears to have fixed the problem of the error messages, none since 2023-03-18 18:13:12 - Down (192.168.0.1) for 4m 29s (Internal) although I still had 1 drop in internet later.
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Hi,
When this happened, did you also check the service on the machine that the agent is running on? Does the agent service show that it's running or stopped?
If you restart the service on the PC, does the agent show back to active on the OutagesIO dashboard?
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Hi,
When this happened, did you also check the service on the machine that the agent is running on? Does the agent service show that it's running or stopped?
If you restart the service on the PC, does the agent show back to active on the OutagesIO dashboard?
@OutagesIO_Supoort I did a Restart OTM from an icon on my tray, did a mass admin run of all 4 .exe files in the Echo Networks Service folder, then went to Echo Networks Service and stopped it and restarted it but it still showed Disconnected. I closed the web browser and then opened it, and it then showed all normal. So, are you saying that the best way is to Stop and Restart the service?
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@OutagesIO_Supoort I did a Restart OTM from an icon on my tray, did a mass admin run of all 4 .exe files in the Echo Networks Service folder, then went to Echo Networks Service and stopped it and restarted it but it still showed Disconnected. I closed the web browser and then opened it, and it then showed all normal. So, are you saying that the best way is to Stop and Restart the service?
@LTMiniard said in Agent going into the status of 'Disconnected' when I have not turned off my PC:
I did a Restart OTM from an icon on my tray, did a mass admin run of all 4 .exe files in the Echo Networks Service folder, then went to Echo Networks Service and stopped it and restarted it but it still showed Disconnected. I closed the web browser and then opened it, and it then showed all normal. So, are you saying that the best way is to Stop and Restart the service?
No, just trying to gather more information to figure out where the problem is.
If the service was at fault, restarting it and immediately seeing the agent back to Active would get us looking at the service.
The fact that you didn't see the status change to Active right away seems to imply that the service seems fine and that something else is causing this.It's interesting that when you closed the browser and opened it back up, then it was fine. That implies that the browser might be caching some things, preventing the true status from showing.
The next time this happens, you could fire up a different browser and look at your dashboard to see if both show the same.
Some others have said something along these lines happen but while some of the symtoms seem to be similar, it's not clear what is happening making it very hard to know what needs to be fixed, it anything.
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I am also having this problem. My dashboard says Disconnected and stops reporting. I checked this on both Chrome and Edge browsers. I can ping tpw.outages.io with no problem.
When I restart the agent, both browsers start reporting again. The agent ID is 130148.
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Is there anything in the Windows logs showing what happened? Can you share those if you see them. Usually in the app logs.
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Is there anything in the Windows logs showing what happened? Can you share those if you see them. Usually in the app logs.
@OutagesIO_Support I don't see anything in the log files. Does this problem only occur on agents running on PCs? I have a few of the hardware agents on order. Are those experiencing the issue as well?
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@OutagesIO_Support I don't see anything in the log files. Does this problem only occur on agents running on PCs? I have a few of the hardware agents on order. Are those experiencing the issue as well?
Correct, the problem is only affecting the Windows software agent. Hardware agents are not affected by this.
We've had a hard time solving the Windows problem because it's not possible to replicate the issue so we can fix it once and for all.
Some of the folks experiencing this aren't even seeing anything in the Windows logs which is truly peculiar and makes it even harder to solve.We are hoping that enough patient members will provide what they can so we can solve it.
On the other hand, we've also talked about the possibility of auto restarting the agent service but it would be much better to know why it's stopping so we can solve it.
If anyone can come up with any logs, we sure would appreciate those. In the meantime, the Windows developer keeps digging to try and find why this could be happening and even with limited input, it helps.
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Correct, the problem is only affecting the Windows software agent. Hardware agents are not affected by this.
We've had a hard time solving the Windows problem because it's not possible to replicate the issue so we can fix it once and for all.
Some of the folks experiencing this aren't even seeing anything in the Windows logs which is truly peculiar and makes it even harder to solve.We are hoping that enough patient members will provide what they can so we can solve it.
On the other hand, we've also talked about the possibility of auto restarting the agent service but it would be much better to know why it's stopping so we can solve it.
If anyone can come up with any logs, we sure would appreciate those. In the meantime, the Windows developer keeps digging to try and find why this could be happening and even with limited input, it helps.
@OutagesIO_Support Thank you. I am not going to worry about it then. I am planning on using the hardware agents exclusively. Thanks
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@OutagesIO_Support Thank you. I am not going to worry about it then. I am planning on using the hardware agents exclusively. Thanks
@jfadams321 said in Agent going into the status of 'Disconnected' when I have not turned off my PC:
@OutagesIO_Support Thank you. I am not going to worry about it then. I am planning on using the hardware agents exclusively. Thanks
The hardware agents have been highly reliable. We considered at one point going hardware only but some admins like to have a software agent so they can do some quick testing when needed.
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@LTMiniard said in Agent going into the status of 'Disconnected' when I have not turned off my PC:
I did a Restart OTM from an icon on my tray, did a mass admin run of all 4 .exe files in the Echo Networks Service folder, then went to Echo Networks Service and stopped it and restarted it but it still showed Disconnected. I closed the web browser and then opened it, and it then showed all normal. So, are you saying that the best way is to Stop and Restart the service?
No, just trying to gather more information to figure out where the problem is.
If the service was at fault, restarting it and immediately seeing the agent back to Active would get us looking at the service.
The fact that you didn't see the status change to Active right away seems to imply that the service seems fine and that something else is causing this.It's interesting that when you closed the browser and opened it back up, then it was fine. That implies that the browser might be caching some things, preventing the true status from showing.
The next time this happens, you could fire up a different browser and look at your dashboard to see if both show the same.
Some others have said something along these lines happen but while some of the symtoms seem to be similar, it's not clear what is happening making it very hard to know what needs to be fixed, it anything.
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@OutagesIO_Support I set up notifications to send me emails on outages. I've had numerous outages reported on my Dashboard, but no emails have been received.
Hi,
I looked at your agent and you have outages marked for notifications but not Inactive/Disconnected statuses.
There was one outage today but lots of Inactive back to online statuses. The dashboard shows up and down events but does not specifically say if they are outages or status changes. That said, the outages graph does show outages and the one for today.
What I see on the back end;
The last email that went out to you was 2023-03-18 10:00:59 about the Extended upgrade.
I have no way of knowing when you enabled outages notifications however but don't see one going out for the outage you had today.
So basically, it depends on when you enabled the outages notifications that you might or might not have received that one email at least.
Does this help explain what seems to have happened?
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Hi,
I looked at your agent and you have outages marked for notifications but not Inactive/Disconnected statuses.
There was one outage today but lots of Inactive back to online statuses. The dashboard shows up and down events but does not specifically say if they are outages or status changes. That said, the outages graph does show outages and the one for today.
What I see on the back end;
The last email that went out to you was 2023-03-18 10:00:59 about the Extended upgrade.
I have no way of knowing when you enabled outages notifications however but don't see one going out for the outage you had today.
So basically, it depends on when you enabled the outages notifications that you might or might not have received that one email at least.
Does this help explain what seems to have happened?
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@OutagesIO_Support I set it up about 9:29 am on the 18th and I got a test message about 11:15.
I don't think the site sends test messages so any message would have been related to an event.
Can you look at that email and confirm for which event the message was for.
It would be related to what ever notification you had enabled at the time if there was an event after you enabled it.
I'm just trying to establish if you enabled the notification before or after the event :).
Or, we can just move forward and you can keep an eye on it from this point. It's always harder to figure some things out after the fact than going forward.
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@OutagesIO_Supoort I did a Restart OTM from an icon on my tray, did a mass admin run of all 4 .exe files in the Echo Networks Service folder, then went to Echo Networks Service and stopped it and restarted it but it still showed Disconnected. I closed the web browser and then opened it, and it then showed all normal. So, are you saying that the best way is to Stop and Restart the service?
@LTMiniard said in Agent going into the status of 'Disconnected' when I have not turned off my PC:
@OutagesIO_Supoort I did a Restart OTM from an icon on my tray, did a mass admin run of all 4 .exe files in the Echo Networks Service folder, then went to Echo Networks Service and stopped it and restarted it but it still showed Disconnected. I closed the web browser and then opened it, and it then showed all normal. So, are you saying that the best way is to Stop and Restart the service?
BTW, the developer says that if you executed the files without using the service, it's possible there were multiples of the same running which would cause such a problem.
Can you make sure there aren't any other files running other than what the service uses. Maybe stop the service, look in the processes, kill anything you see if there are any then restart the service and it will start the correct processes.
