Network Monitoring Settings

This section of the program's settings configures the background monitoring, which returns the device status (active, inactive) in real-time, and maintains a log of devices and services operation, notifying of devices starting and stopping. The background monitoring is turned on by default for all opened and newly created maps when you select the option Monitoring is turned on. When you deselect this option, the monitoring stops (and does not start automatically in new maps). In this case, you can run the monitoring process manually by clicking the "Monitoring | Start monitoring the current map's devices" item on the main menu (the hotkey F6).

Monitoring settings include the following parameters:

• Interval between checks for each device (in seconds) - default period of time, in which the program starts querying devices again. The recommended value is 60 seconds. Depending on the results (whether it responds or not), the program assigns special icon to each device and produces notifications. You can reassign checking intervals for all devices by pressing the Apply to all devices button.
• Maximal checking threads count - the amount of program threads which check devices simultaneously. Avoid increasing this parameter too much. This can slow down your computer. The recommended value is 25 threads or less. Consider fact that Windows XP SP2 and some other OS do not allow making half-open TCP connections to more than 10 different addresses per 10 seconds (excessive threads will be slowed down by the system). ICMP ping is not affected by this restriction although.
• Process priority - priority, which a background ping process gets when sharing system resources. The recommended value is Normal.