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How to check what process or application is deleting a file without using Process Monitor? (Windows Server)
Currently I'm having an issue with a piece of software that makes use of specific files (which are basically xml), sometimes stored on a file share and sometimes stored locally.
Every so often one of ...
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suspicious connection on server
OS: Windows Server 2003 Monitoring tool: CurrPorts
When monitoring traffic on the server for traffic going out on port 80, example of results:
5/1/2014 2:36:23 PM Added cscript.exe TCP server-IP:...
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How to troubleshoot network from customers perspective?
We have a web application that we host that is customized for multiple customers. Each customer accesses their version of the site via their own custom subdomain. We are running into an issue where ...
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Monitor multiple Servers Performance [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Monitoring production server
In my company there are 5 servers, each one of them is running on different OS such as Linux, Red Hat, Windows, and Mac OS Server.
So my ...
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How can an Administrator Discreetly View a Remote Desktop User's Session?
I have a manager that has legitimate reasons for wanting to view a user's Remote Desktop session with Windows 2003 server.
Logged into that same server (as Administrator), how can you discreetly view ...
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Have issue with monitoring 32bit app pools running on 64bit IIS
I am performing a monitoring task on my 64bit web server which has couple of applications pools running in 32bit mode. I am using .Net CLR Memory object in perfmon to monitor them. However, my ...
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Identifying per-CPU usage for a process
We just set up Nagios monitoring for some of our Windows (2003) servers, when looking at one of the servers I noticed this on the CPU graph
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DNS - IP Address does not resolve to a hostname
I have AD/DNS running on a Win2003 Server, and I'm using Spiceworks. When I run a scan with SpiceWorks I get a lot of DNS errors. Mainly "IP Address does not resolve to a hostname". And if I look at ...
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Tools to help identify unknown server issue
We've been struggling to identify a issue where all our bespoke systems crash at least once a day. We haven't changed all our systems to we're trying to pin down what else has changed which is ...
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Monitor Windows event logs for an event and execute a VBS script
I need a free way to monitor the Windows event logs and when a particular event is logged I need to kick off a VBS script. Is there a tool that can do this?
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Disk Space Monitoring
I have about 70 servers and I need to keep an eye on their disk space usage. I don't need the information to be real time. I was thinking of running a script daily or having a scheduled task run to ...
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windows administration - setting up alerts/emails for failed windows services
What are some best practices, tools sets within the Windows 2003 server that I can utilize to monitor failed application services?
We basically have some 3party software that has a few services that ...
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What temperature monitoring software is avalible for Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2?
I don't have much experience working with servers and I need to monitor temperatures for several servers (remotely). I use hwmonitor for my laptops but it doesn't support server hardware. Does anyone ...
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Monitoring network connection of Windows Server in real-time
I'm looking for a way to monitor the network connection from my PC to a Windows Server running on our network. My PC is running Windows 7 and the server is running Windows Server 2003 R2. I'm looking ...
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Windows Server 2003 SNMP Disk I/O OID's
It's been about few years since I went near SNMP and I now need to capture some metrics from Windows Servers via SNMP.
The last time I did something like this I used iReasoning's MIB Browser to ...
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How to monitor and log processor, memory and other details for website running behind IIS?
I have ASP.NET application installed behind IIS 6.0(Windows Server 2K3). Now when i run the application and i would like to get some load testing scenarios to work on this. While doing the load test i ...
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monitor a folder and send files via ftp to clients
I am looking for software that will monitor a specific folder and when a file is created in it send that file off via ftp to a client associated with that folder by the software.
I have tried ...
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Windows Server 2003 Process Monitoring and Logging
Can anyone recommend software to monitor and log the processes (CPU, RAM, Disk IO, etc) on a Windows 2003 Server (Like Windows Sysinternals Process Explorer, but with logging)?
We have a server that ...
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How to log Windows server share connections?
Can anyone make a suggestion for the best way to log connections and disconnections from Windows workstations to a Windows Server 2003 file share?
We're having some issues with workstations that have ...
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Monitor activity to an IP Address - Windows 2003 and 2008 Server
We are about to decommission a server that was used for email routing.
We have a collection of web servers that did use it.
I would like to setup some network traffic monitoring on the web servers ...
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How can I be alerted if a Windows Server 2003 machine's hard drive is approaching full?
I need to get an email alert when a Windows Server 2003 server's hard drive approaches a certain fill level. How can this be accomplished?
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Exchange server 2003 service alerts
Hi I'm looking for a way to send out an email alert when exchange 2003 stores go down or when exchange services enter the stopped state.
Is there a inexpensive way to do this?
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Monitor linux and windows servers from windows
currently i've got 5 servers (3 with windows server and 2 with linux).
I am looking for a tool to monitor all the 5 servers from a windows machine (not the linux one, as i'd be using Nagios).
I mean, ...
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How to monitor crashed mysql tables?
We often get the error Table marked as crashed and should be repaired on some of your mysql tables running on a windows 2003 server.
How can I monitor if a table in a mysql db is "crashed"? Is there ...
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How do you monitor the health of a mirrored disk in Windows?
I have a Mirrored Dynamic disk on my Windows 2003 Server. How do you monitor the health of the volume?
Is there a way to have the server send an email when there is an issue with the volume?
Is there ...
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Script to monitor free space in Hdd
I have a server app that crushes when the HDD free space it's a multiple of 4Gb (on a Windows Server 2003). In general i keep track myself o that weekly since i use the machine from time to time.
Can ...
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How can I see who's VPNed in and for how long?
I know how to view the VPN sessions currently logged in and how long that connection has been on but I want to be able to view a history of these activities over long periods of time. I don't think I ...
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Free tool to write Performance Counters to MS SQL Database?
Is there some (free) tool that reads Performance Counters (Windows 2008 Server, but 2003 support is a bonus) and adds them to a MS SQL Server 2008 database?
Doesn't need to be too fancy as in the ...
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How do I find out which websites are slowing down my server?
Are there any good tools out there that I can use to find out which websites are the biggest drain on my Windows 2003 web server's resources? The server has been steadily slowing to a crawl and I want ...
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Monitor a Windows Server using SNMP
How hard can this be? I want to get the current CPU performance from a remote Win 2k3 machine. I need to use SNMP because the machine is behind a firewall.
Assumptions:
I understand networking/can ...
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Windows webserver monitor and notifier service
I'm looking for a software tool/service, preferably opensource/free, which will run on a Windows 2003 r3 standard server which will monitor bandwidth usage of all the websites it's hosting (a break ...
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lsass.exe memory leak on windows 2003 server
In the past month or so I noticed that lsass.exe has started to leak memory, getting to 500MB+ of ram in under a week after reboot. Before this I had never noticed it using any significant amount of ...
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Hardware/BIOS Monitoring Tools with Email or other Reporting Functionality
I am looking for recommendations for good software that can report the status of hardware it is installed on through an email or IP Connection.
A bit of background, my organization has 160 locations ...
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Perfmon % Processor Time vs. task manager's CPU usage
I'm new to using Perfmon and performance monitoring in general (so go easy on me please ;)
I know that Perfmon doesn't have anything exactly like Task Manager's CPU usage display, but I'm trying to ...
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Monitoring of a single server and probable bottlenecks
I've been tasked with nursing a single Windows 2003 SP2 server hosting an ecommerce website. A nation-wide promotion campaign is scheduled and my fear is that the poor machine will crumble under load. ...
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Backup Exec Monitoring Tool
Does anyone know of a monitoring tool for Backup Exec 12 and BESR 8.5?
I'm sick of going through all the email alerts or logging into servers to check the status of my backups.
Servers are Windows ...
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Cacti: How to monitor Windows Hosts?
I have Cacti installed on a computer and SNMP enabled on my Windows Hosts (Community string : public)
How do I get the Windows Network Utilization, HDD, CPU, and more?
I would like a guideline on ...
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Listing all current RDP sessions
We're running a certain application on a client's server. The app runs on the console session, and basically manages some batch processing. Every once in a while we discover the app is not running, ...
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Server monitoring? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
is there a free, open source server monitoring tool like Nagios that runs on the MS stack? It will need to be able to detect ...
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What is the Best Way to Monitor Server Temperature?
I need to be able to monitor the temperature of a couple of servers remotely. Does anyone know of any free/cheap software that will monitor the server temp and email it or at least output it so that ...
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Monitoring Win2003 box. Server is not in the same network
I've been going through all the monitoring questions, and even the small wiki that one member already started, but I can't seem to be able to grasp the whole concept of monitoring a remote host.
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Easy way to monitor disk space on multiple MS 2003 servers
I'm looking for an easy way to monitor free disk space on a large number of servers.
I would also like to be able to count files in certain folders on those servers
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Web Traffic Monitoring - Small Business Server 2003
My father runs a small business and has had a growing concern about some of the web activity for a couple employees. He's asked that we have a way to report the activity, but its a bit over my head. ...
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Performance Manager - what counters?
We're currently looking at moving from a traditional Server environment to a SAN/VMWare environemnt.
I've been asked to gather performance statistics for our main servers - DCs, File Servers, ...
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DLLHost Problematic DLL
We have a webserver that's reacting slowly. It seems that a DLLHost.exe is the problem (taking ~100% Processor). How do we tell which dll in DLLHost is causing the problem. We've seen which ones ...
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