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Monitis Monitor Manager Installation Guide: Start Monitoring (almost) Everything!

POSTED ON: June 20, 2012 POSTED BY Dan Fruehauf

M3 and the previous version

We are really proud of Monitis Monitor Manager (M3) a tool that enables you to easily configure checks and upload the data to Monitis.

We are certain that it has a great potential that can be unleashed with the help of the Monitis community and various interested developers. It is really a powerful tool for monitoring nearly everything. M3 been around for a while now. It started as a simple Perl script for for managing Custom Monitors was developing slowly slowly into a robust, pluggable infrastructure for managing almost anything in terms of Custom Monitors in Monitis.
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Linux Series 2: DNS Zones and BIND9 configuration settings.

POSTED ON: June 8, 2012 POSTED BY Joseph Parkton

In our last tutorial we covered the basics of how to install and configure a LAMP stack running Linux, Apache HTTP server, MySQL, and PHP. Now what is the next step? In this next tutorial we will be learning how to set up and configure a DNS server. A DNS server is how we are going to manage internal domain names at home or in the office. For this tutorial we will be using the BIND9 service. First a little bit about how DNS Works, DNS stands for Domain Name Servers, this is a service running on the server which tells that www.google.com is located at IP address 74.125.239.18 (amongst a million others) if the DNS service cannot find address 74.125.239.18 on its DNS table it will begin querying other DNS services with a higher authority until it finds which DNS table holds the domain information for address 74.125.239.18. When it finds this information that is then passed to the users browser however in the event no internet connected DNS server is found with domain information for this address it will display a message in the users browser such as “Server not found”

When it comes to DNS configuration settings they can be very tricky. They can also be very difficult at times and we can go into depth about some more of the functions later so we want to create a private internal domain name “mydomain.com” so lets find out what our internal IP address is. Open your terminal and type ifconfig this will display a listing of all of our network connections. Now let’s assume our internal network address is 10.0.2.x (which is what mine is at the moment) and our router and gateway is 10.0.2.2 lets suppose all the devices on our network are going to be configured using static IP addresses (normally IP addresses are assigned automatically by DHCP but for the purpose of this tutorial we will have three static IP devices connected to our gateway.
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Category: Applications Monitoring, Database Management, Database Monitoring, Linux Servers Monitoring, Mail Server Monitoring, MySQL monitoring, Network Monitoring, Server Management, Sysadmin Tools, Web Server Monitoring

Monitor Active Directory with VBScript on Monitis

POSTED ON: April 12, 2012 POSTED BY Hovhannes Avoyan

Using scripting and the Custom Monitor functionality in Monitis you can monitor not only system metrics but also how other resources are used.

To give an example we’ll use a scenario that involves an Active Directory security group used to grant access to a color printer on your print server. In your organization you may have several administrators and you want to maintain control on how resource access is granted. One way to establish this is to monitor he number of users in the security group and set up an alert when a user is added or removed from the monitored group.
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Category: Monitoring Scripts, Windows Networking, Windows Servers Monitoring

Important IIS7 Counters

POSTED ON: April 2, 2012 POSTED BY Irina Tihova

A big part of an IIS server management is its monitoring. The monitoring can call attention to issues with the IIS system before they negatively impact the end user’s experience.
In this article we will focus on the different performance counters you should consider when implementing IIS server monitoring.
The first part is focused on general counters measuring the performance of the server hosting the IIS, such as processor, memory, disk, and network utilization. We will go over each one of these counters to find out why it’s a key counter to monitor and what values are considered normal.
The second part of this article focuses on counters specific to the web applications running on IIS, such as ASP.NET, .NET CLR, and Web Service counters.

General Counters

Processor\% Processor Time – refers to the average percentage of processor time occupied. It is a main indicator to consider when deciding whether the CPU power of the IIS server is enough. It is recommended for this counter to remain below 85% for the system to be considered healthy.
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Category: Web Server Monitoring, Windows Networking

10 Tips for Monitoring Best Practices (Alerting and Notifications)

POSTED ON: March 30, 2012 POSTED BY Joe Kern

Monitoring tools are only as good as YOU make them! Not really what you wanted to hear? Sorry but the truth will set you FREE. This Article will cover 10 Tips for Monitoring Best Practices. Guess what… they are all about YOU not the monitoring tools or features!

All monitoring solutions simply do what YOU tell them to. Monitoring tools come in two varieties:

Sensitive types: All alerts are automatically on, at the most sensitive level
Quite types: All alerts are disabled and you need to enable them manually.

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