Losing Faith/Trust w/ OVRC.
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Brian Jaworoski
OVRC shows 100 devices online - nothing offline. I'm off-sight and trying to identify a device on a network switch, so I just off the Port on the Araknis Switch to kill that devices connection. I than wait a couple mins - push an OVRC SCAN - wait a couple more mins - and OVRC does not show any device offline. I expected to see the Device i was looking for OFFLINE. I also constantly see Devices randomly OFFLINE for 2 mins, even thou I know that device has not dropped offline and has been fine. What is the point of doing a SCAN if it is not valid?
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Justin Morabito
It is still an amazing tool. Do we all forget it is a free tool. If you want more reliability go spend thousands on Cisco each year. OVRC is a game changer and if you set your expectations based on the yearly cost for it, I think you would realize that posts like this are useless.
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Jason Zimmermann
Have the same problem with devices offline for 2 min... alerts are annoying
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Jason Brown
Hahaha, and you are just now realizing this? The reliability and response time of OvrC are nowhere near capable of something like this. BUT there's more than one way to skin that cat. If you can turn ports on and off, then it must be a managed switch. Did you try looking at the ARP table or the LLDP neighbor report? If you have a PC on site you can use a program like Nirsoft pinginfoview to continuously ping 40 or 50 hosts at the same time and see which one goes down when you turn off the port.
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Brodric Ryder
OvrC will never work properly. They tried to do too much with too many devices from too many different manufacturers. If they can't get the basics to work properly after so many years in operation I think people need to realize the obvious and manage their expectations going forward.