Sometimes I've noticed that PC's in general will change their monitored services and I'm wondering why. at one point last week i set all PC's to monitor ping only. strangely, they are all monitoring ping and netbios now, some just netbios. anyone have any ideas what could cause this.

thanks,
Beer.

Probably related to how when I remove certain probes from the probe list, they automagically reappear and cause my maps to light up with alerts I am not currently concerned about. Mind you, they don't reappear if Dude is re-started, they just show up again at any old time without any human intervention.

I do know that in another solution that I was using PC's would show up as all sorts of things, for instance a mail server, if the system happened to be retrieving mail while being probed.

well that's an interesting concept isn't it. I'm wondering also about a device that magically appeared on my map. the part that gets me is I've manually setup my map to physical topology, not logical, and it knew exactly which switch to put it on and even drew the link. now that's strange. keep in mind that I'm taking precautions to stop excessive discovery, as I'm fairly sure this is what crashed my wireless network six months ago. At any rate i guess it's just one of those things we'll all have to deal with. what's that about restarting the dude though? I'm not sure i quite understand what you're saying.

what's that about restarting the dude though?

Every few days The Dude will just stop serving web pages, so it gets restarted. Then there are the odd crashes that happen that also require restarting (although not as many now as I used to get). However, the restarts don't have any effect on when the removed probes get readded to the system. They just reappear at random times. It would be nice though, that if you 'remove' something, it stays removed.