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    The 3 agents are recording a similar situation on Jan 13 at >around 13:33 Chicago time but at the same time are not >recording any type of outage.

    We are confused why you keep saying the agents are not reporting outages, all three have done just that.

    This is your 129878;
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    This is your 131232;
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    This is your 131236;

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    As can be seen, outages are being logged. There was a problem with notifications which we fixed as soon as you told us about it.

    Did you read the links that were sent? Outages are being recorded but most of your problems are not IP outages, they are some other kind of disconnection.

    Two different technologies (Windows, Openwrt) and >three different versions (MT300 and MT3000 even if >they both are openwrt are different in binaries) but they >all:

    The technology is the same in terms of how the agent works but the binaries are of course different since they run on different platforms.

    cannot identify an outage
    See images above.

    are monitoring inactives
    Because that is where most of the problems you are experiencing are, disconnections, not IP outages.

    they disagree in some minor timing, which can be >related to the way the three agents are connected to >the LAN
    Yes, there would be minor differences in timing which is expected since loops have to run so timing can be a bit different.

    So next question is: is it possible, without any specific >detail, understand if all three agents are connected the >same way within the LAN (different VLANs, directly >connected to the router or thru a switch, different rules >in the firewall)

    Sorry, I'm not seeing the actual question. Can you elaborate on this please.

    A simple hand drawn picture is more than enough, as I >said no company detail is needed, jsut trying to see >where the problem is originated and why they behave in >such a way.
    An image of what? From whom? For what?

    We've spent two days solid on this and still willing to help but cannot know anything beyond what you are explaining without remote access. Even with remote access, it might not be clear what's going on but we're still trying to help. Just kind of blindfolded at our end other than what we see from your agents.

    What we see is that there is something on your network that seems to be blocking communications here and there. It seems to be random, like maybe a firewall rule suddenly kicking in after it's seen a certain amount of traffic to/from our network.

    If this were a common problem, we would see it across all of our agents but we don't. We only see it in your reports and it's as odd to us as it is to you.

    Remember that this service is not the ultimate answer to everything, it is just another tool. It automates as much as possible logging disconnections and IP outages. It is meant to monitor your ISP, not your LAN. It is not a network diagnostic tool, it is part of your other tools that you would use to find and solve IP problems.

    Other than monitoring to see if we can catch a clue, we so far have not seen anything that tells us what is going on but we are also blind since we cannot see what's going on from the agents point of view.

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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    Did you find the email?

  • Can not turn on email/SMS notification

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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    Great tip for others. Thanks for sharing.

    We do plan on adding SMS, it's in our long list of things to do :).

  • 0 Votes
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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    Hi,

    We can get your agent/s back up within a few minutes. Please see this post.
    https://support.outagesio.com/topic/295/urgent-yellow-hardware-agent-owners/4

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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    Were you able to resolve this? We're happy to help if you still need help.

  • 1 Votes
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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    Your agent is now in Extended mode so once you get it back online, it should be fine but remember that you canceled your subscription so at the end of the month, it will fall back into Prestaging. At that point, you can renew or just leave it until you want to use it again.

    Prestaging is when you're getting your agent ready for a subscription.
    There's no point in purchasing a subscription until your agent is properly communicating.

    It's a way to make sure people don't waste their time and money buying a sub for an agent that's not correctly communicating yet.

    It's not really a bug but a logic thing that we thought we solved :).

  • Rebooting

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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    BTW, what did it cost you to send those agents back so we can include that in the refund.

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    @mshafrin

    I am assuming that your firewall is also your default gateway, if not then what follows could be incorrect.

    If I take a look at the hops recorded by all 3 SW agents (not only the one you mentioned) and the only HW agent, you will see that only the HW agent is having the first hop pointing to 192.168.1.1, the other ones go directly to an external IP without passing thru the firewall/gateway.

    So on one side either the Windows agents or the firewall is masking the direct hops or they are connected in a different way from the HW agent; I also saw that the 130435 was once connected in a different way since it had the same 192.168.1.1 that now doesnt show up again.

    In the end, what does it mean?
    If the agent cannot determine where the LAN ends and the provider begins there is no way to give you a correct report about where the outage was and IF it was a network outage or a problem related to cabling (provider's end of cabling).

    If the firewall is NOT your default gateway then it would be nice to understand a bit more about the LAN topology to help to troubleshoot it but so far I haven't seen a wrong behavior from the agents you have installed.

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    @jwladd
    As far as I can see your agent ID 129676 is correctly working

    Can you please, share anyway what was happening at the time of this post ?

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    You're welcome.

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    OK glad to help.

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    Fair enough. I can get the same functionality by configuring your email notifications to use [phone number]@[carrier's email].com. Just wanted to make sure I was seeing everything I was supposed to. Appreciate the response.

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    After 3 emails have been sent out the system automatically disable that option to avoid sending too much of them
    That value has been set based on the past experiences we had with other customers

    There is a chance we will re-evaluate how that is working for consumers (enterprise user have a different setting)

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    @markl
    Hi

    It seems your agent is not able to connect properly to the internet.
    I can see that now it is disconnected completely and it never sent PINGS.

    Is there a chance your internal firewall is preventing this agent to use ICMP?

  • 0 Votes
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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    Hi,

    I'm assuming you didn't notice the mention in the purchase page. These agents have 100Mbps ports so with our app running on it, it would max out below 100Mbps.

    The point of the speed test isn't really to see if you can max out the connection but to see if you have a usable amount of bandwidth.

    For example, even with a 100Mbps max, if you were seeing 5 or 10Mbps for example, you would know there is something really wrong.

    Hope this helps.

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    @dltwyman

    Hi Douglas,

    Was it a power outage or was it an "internet outage"?

    I ask since I cannot see anything else than a disconnection which, as stated, would not be IP related. Meaning, you would not see an outage

    The reason behind the inactive/disconnected alert is exactly to show other reason behind the "missing connectivity" which are not identified by the "usual" internet outage.

    In short, if the agent recognizes an IP outage, it will always log it assuming the software was not stopped or restarted in which case, the outage info it was tracking would be lost.

  • 1 Votes
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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    Hi,

    Not much we can do about the buttons, it comes with the hardware. Most little devices like these have them, it's just a matter of programming.

    The activation email was sent on the day that the agent was prepared, It's probably in your junk box but the one we re-sent earlier today made it which is good.

    All worked out after all, it's all that matters.

    Hopefully, the service helps you to find problems you might be having.

    Feel free to ask for help or clarification any time.

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    SBKS

    @shahinfard
    Hi,

    Please double check that all the settings are now associated to the HW agent.

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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    Glad you got it.

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    OutagesIO_SupportO

    So how is it going? Did you figure it out?