Spiceworks Network Monitor Foibles

Hello team, I have
some questions and concerns about the network monitor. My up time has been
about 65% since installing the monitor to a standalone, sufficiently powered
system. After an extended period of monitoring it will cease loading and
auto-refreshing the page. Also, when I conduct server reboots, the monitor will
not refresh when the server comes back up (I verify the connectivity from the
standalone system itself as well as remote into the server/run a ping -t to
track its' status). Thirdly, I have not been able to add any SNMP devices: wifi
APs, switches, routers, temperature monitors, and my UPS all return failures
when using the correct credentials to connect. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
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Taken from http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Spiceworks_Network_Monitor:
Install the Network Monitor on its own Windows device. Having the Network Monitor and the Spiceworks Desktop Application on the same machine is highly discouraged.

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◾Select to store the overide in a management pack you have created and press OK
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