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monitor windows server - running behind firewall using WMI
I'm havingg 100 windows machines which is running behind the firewall. But my monitoring server is running outside the network [ public].
For SNMP , I can put one proxy server inside the internal ...
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How do I open the firewall for my monitoring software to access WMI?
I have a SQL Server machine and a monitoring machine, and I need the monitoring software on the monitor host to be able to read the WMI data on the SQL Server host. (The monitoring software is ...
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Monitoring Memory Usage on a Machine that Uses MSMQ
Based on this thread, it seems that it's "normal" for the MSMQ process to take up an much memory as is available until it comes under memory pressure.
It seems most monitoring tools base memory usage ...
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SQL 2008 R2 User Connections and Total Server Memory counters spike at the same time on multiple servers
We use SolarWinds SAM software to monitor servers and applications. We started using it to monitor our SQL servers through the performance counters.
We started getting alerts two to three times ...
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Is there a way to log all files that are created on a W2K8 server?
I've got a W2K8 server with some IIS apps that are creating a lot of files. I would like to monitor what files are created and how big they are. Is there a tool I could use to log all files that are ...
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Tracking Individual Processes in Windows Server 2008, Is It Possible?
I'm hoping we can get a solution together on this. I'm looking to try and narrow down what's happening on a windows server 2008 box that's causing us to have to reboot every 2 weeks. Resource ...
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Which Website/User uses the Server resources on Windows Server 2008? [closed]
I have a shared webhosting server based on Windows 2008/IIS 7/Plesk 11.0 .Most of the time Server's CPU usage is over 80% and MS SQL Server process uses most of the CPU/RAM resources.
I want to know ...
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finding the user - without knowing the innards of IIS
Place of crime is WinSrv2008 with IIS7.
My IIS apppool user is trying to create a folder but fails. How do I find out which User it is?
Let's say I don't know much about IIS7 and Aspnet but need ...
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Representing server state with a metric
I'm using Microsoft's Performance Monitor to dump logs of RAM, CPU, network, and disk usage from multiple servers. I'd like to get a single metric that captures the state of a given variable to a good ...
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What is the best way to determine server resources each remote user is using
I manage some Win2008R2 servers on the network for my department. Each server usually has 10 - 20 users at a time connected to it. They are nothing more than locked down file servers on the domain.
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Monitoring Windows 2008 R2 File Server Client Job Requests
I would like to monitor the requests or incoming jobs (for example, if they transfer files or submit requests) to the file server by many workstations in the company. I would like to track their IP ...
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How can I monitor memory usage for a windows-based JVM and trigger an alert if it gets too high?
I have an app that runs as a JVM in Windows 2008. I'd like to monitor it's memory usage and be sent an email if/when memory usage reaches a specific threshold. Is there a free utility or method for ...
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How to you Monitor your Server in real time? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
How to you monitor that your server is up 24x7 ( all the time ).
Do you use Script or Open source software or paid software.
My ...
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Disk Monitoring with OpenNMS
I'm sure this has been asked before (and actually all over the net) but I'm scratching my head a little over this. OpenNMS is installed on my 2008R2 server and is picking up my nodes fine (detecting ...
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Can I monitor active user count on my iis sites?
We are having problems with performance on our server that host our websites that the processor gets upp to 90%. I would like to monitor the amount of users active on your sites that are published on ...
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monitoring services, CPU, memory remotely on a Windows server machine
I'm looking for a tool that is able to (remotely) monitor CPU and Memory in a Windows server but most importantly, which service/process is using it.
Or-- is it possible to monitor a specific running ...
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How do I know which shared folders file have moved under windows server 2008?
I have Windows 2008 domain controller. I also use this server for users' shared folders.
I'd like to know the users shared folder files movement on the server side. For example, when someone moves ...
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How can I monitor whether an application is running on Windows Server 2008?
We're mostly a Linux shop, but we have a print server running Windows Server 2008, and use an application called Print Helper to print invoices. I need to find a way to check that this application is ...
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Can Resource Monitor include Hyper-V machines memory consumption in its results?
Windows Resource Monitor is a nice (and built-in) tool providing a fast overview of resource utilization. On a server with Hyper-V installed, it correctly shows the CPU and disk activity generated by ...
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Windows Performance Monitor keeps trying to add unwanted counters
I have been running a Data Collector Set for SQL Server for a week, and everything was going just fine until I tried clicking on Action -> Save Current View and now it always tries to add the ...
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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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Can System Center Essentials 2010 monitor both domain and non-domain Windows Servers?
I need to be able to monitor two sets of Windows Server 2008 machines with System Center Essentials 2010.
One physical and 3 virtual (Hyper-V) servers in a domain configuration.
On the same LAN, but ...
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Create group in SCOM 2007 R2 that targets windows computer but is populated based on an installed service
I am trying to create a group in SCOM 2007 R2 that targets the Windows Computer class but is populated based on a certain service being installed. I want the group to be populated dynamically based on ...
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recommendations on server monitoring frameworks? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
I'm a developer in a shop with dozens of Solaris, Linux and Windows servers. Since I'm not a sysadmin I'm posting here to tap ...
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monitor bandwidth on multiple subdomains that share the same ip (Windows/IIS)
I have seen the following:
Tool to track bandwidth by domain name?
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How can I monitor bandwidth usage by Virtual Host in Apache on Ubuntu
We use IIS7 on a Windows Server 2008. We have our Domain ...
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Best windows based network monitoring software
I want to know which is best windows based network monitoring tools mainly for monitoring network and control internet access.
I want to monitor the bandwidth of internet usage in each machine in ...
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best windows based network monitoring software
i want to know which is best windows based network monitoring tools mainly for monitoring network and control internet access.
i want to monitor the bandwidth of internet usage in each machine in ...
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Logging with Resource Monitor?
I am having sudden spikes in disk read activity, which can tie up my system for a few seconds at a time. I would like to figure out the cause of this before I set my machine to go live.
With ...
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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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Logging internet usage in Server 2008?
We are running Windows Server 2008, with each client connecting to the internet through a Draytek router. Each client is setup with OpenDNS which blocks most websites.
There are a few limitations to ...
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Traffic Monitor/Analizer for Windows Gateway
one customer has a simple LAN with Win2k8r2 server acting as GW, DHCP and DC for all PC. So internet traffic from PC is going to that machine, then it goes to ADSL router from the ISP.
How can i ...
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Monitor system resources and save a log
I got a server which works fine for a while and then suddenly eats up all the memory and then hangs.
I need to be able to monitor it and thought that I could use the Resource Monitor. but I haven't ...
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What is the best way to monitor disk IO for a Hyper-V Host machine?
When I fire up Perfmon on the hyper-v host, it shows only disk io for that host, and it doesn't seem to include the aggragte disk IO for all machines on the host. Is there something special I need to ...
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Microsoft Windows server monitoring tools
I'm more of a developer then an IT guy and I was wondering if there are any existing Microsof tools for monitoring servers and potentially SQL Server.
We have access to MSDN so anything created by ...
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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 to free used memory in Windows Server 2008 R2?
The Task Manager and the Resource Monitor say that the memory is 95% used, but the sum of the memory used by the listed processes don't sum up to 20%. Where this 75% of usage is coming from? How to ...
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What's the best way to monitor a large number of application pools in IIS7?
Some background first - We're running IIS 7 on Windows 2008. We're running around 250 websites per server with each site in it's own application pool.
I need a way to monitor each application pool ...
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How do I monitor redundant power supplies on a Dell server?
I'm purchasing a Dell R610 with redundant power supplies. What is the best way to be alerted in the event that one of the power supplies fails? I'll be running Windows Server 2008 R2. Since this ...
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Windows Server 2008 monitoring suggestions [closed]
I want to monitor my Windows Server 2008 and get notified if there're any issues.
examples of what to monitor: running out of space, service shut down, errors in event log, unsuccessful (and ...
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How Much Time is being Wasted on Windows Server 2008?
I am using Windows Server 2008, running in a Hyper-V VM. The system performs very badly. We're pretty sure it's due to insufficient memory. I've looked at How to find out if my Windows Server 2003 ...
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How To Monitor Printserver Queues
Do you know of any (preferably free) software that will monitor printer queues on a Windows Server 2008 print server? Specifically, I would like to be able to fire off an alert/email if the queue for ...
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Windows 2008 in built Bandwidth Monitoring tool?
We are hosting lot of Win 2008 servers, now I am aware of commercial bandwidth monitoring tools, but I know there are some network tools available in Windows server like NetMon etc, I dont know how to ...
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uptime.exe crashing on Windows Server 2008
Can anyone get uptime.exe to run either the /s or /p:n switches on a Windows Server 2008 box without crashing?
I realise it's a NT tool and no longer supported, but it worked fine on 2003. I've ...
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Exporting perfmon counters via SNMP
I've got perfmon displaying the current number of ASP.NET requests on a Windows 2008 server, all good there.
I've enabled the SNMP service and I can perform an snmpwalk (Linux command to browse the ...
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Lightweight temperature monitoring on Windows Server 2008
I'm working for a small organization, and I'm currently looking for a quick and easy way to monitor server temperature (Possibly graphing it, though having an emailed warning would be o.k.)
I'm ...
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Enable Ping in Windows Server Firewall?
I've just installed Windows Server 2008 on a server and I'm able to connect through Remote Desktop but can't ping. Do I need to open an special port on the firewall to be able to ping a server?
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