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Monitor Everything with Monitis – And do it easily with PowerShell – Part 3

POSTED ON: September 29, 2011 POSTED BY Hovhannes Avoyan

Mining External Monitor Results with Monitis and PowerShell

In the last article, we walked thru some of the other commands related to external monitors.  Today, we’ll focus on the one you’ll probably use the most:  Get-MonitisMonitorResult.

Before we get started, please remember to download the Monitis module from Monitis’ github open source repository.  Download it to Documents\WindowsPowerShell\modules, and import it in PowerShell by running Import-Module Monitis.

Get-MonitisMonitorResult gives you results from any type of Monitor.  You use it by piping in the monitors you want.

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Category: Monitoring Scripts, Website Monitoring

HTTP extraction with Monitis

POSTED ON: September 27, 2011 POSTED BY Dan Fruehauf

HTTP what?


Yes, HTTP extraction. Imagine you have a web page you would like to probe for parameters. Such as the number of your twitter subscribers, or the temperature somewhere – and profile it in Monitis.
Or another scenario could be to probe the responsiveness of your website – how fast is it?
Was it compromised and defaced?
I think you get the point – it is needed and important.
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Category: 101 Reasons To Choose Monitis, Applications Monitoring, Monitis API, Monitoring Scripts, Sysadmin Tools, Web Server Monitoring, Website Monitoring

Blog Summary for Week of September 19

POSTED ON: September 23, 2011 POSTED BY don

1. Monitor Everything with Monitis – And do it easily with PowerShell – Part 1
PowerShell is a task-based automation platform for Windows. PowerShell lets you perform tasks simple and easily, using logically named commands, like Get-command, Get-Help, or Send-MailMessage. Monitis has partnered with the PowerShell experts at Start-Automating to allow users to perform monitoring tasks using these simply commands. This article shows how to get started. The first step is to download the necessary files at http://monitis.start-automating.com/ and extract them. Then, by following the steps in this article, a user can create an external monitor to check bing.com with the following command: Add-MonitisExternalMonitor -Name “MyWebSite” -Tag WebMonitors -MonitorType http -Url www.bing.com -ApiKey 20ECHRRRMK88L31KH6OMDU0BNR -SecretKey 26CQ6QUIRF571P1BHU3CV37MR0 It’s really quite simple and powerful because you can automate otherwise repetitive tasks, such as adding many external monitors.
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Category: Weekly Summary

Business Continuity and How to Achieve Up Time

POSTED ON: September 23, 2011 POSTED BY Aaron Burnett

Whether you are running your own IT firm or have a hand in running an IT department for a larger organization, at some point or another you will need to plan for business continuity in the event of some major interruption in business operations.  Regardless of whether that interruption comes in the form of natural disaster, economic disaster, hardware or application failure, security attack, or some other traumatic event, it is your responsibility to ensure that the business can continue, at least from a technological perspective.  While I won’t go into great detail on the intricate development of a continuity plan (there are already many resources on this subject floating around the web), I will mention a few things here that I consider important considerations.
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Category: Articles, Server Management

Monitor Everything with Monitis – And do it easily with PowerShell – Part 2

POSTED ON: September 22, 2011 POSTED BY Hovhannes Avoyan

Managing External Monitors with Monitis and PowerShell

 

In the last article, we got started with how to create a simple external monitor with Monitis in PowerShell.  The command you use is Add-MonitisExternalMonitor.  You’ll have to import the Monitis module first to use it (Import-Module Monitis).

Monitis lets you monitor everything, and when you manage those monitors with PowerShell life gets a lot easier.  In PowerShell, commands normally come in little families.  To see all of the other things you can do with external monitors, run:
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Category: Monitoring Scripts, Sysadmin Tools, Website Monitoring, Windows Servers Monitoring

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