Try finding info on it .... I found no (real) info on it on MSDN :-(
Dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Webster Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:05 PM To: salive@woodstone.nu Subject: RE: [SA-list] Major product checks missing? Go Paul! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paul ockenden Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:37 AM To: salive@woodstone.nu Subject: Re: [SA-list] Major product checks missing? I think there's a common API for recent AV products. That's how XP/SP2 knows whether you have an AV product installed, and how up to date the signatures are. P. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dirk Bulinckx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <salive@woodstone.nu> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:16 AM Subject: RE: [SA-list] Major product checks missing? > For the AV, the main issue will be that there are soooo many different AV > products each with their own interfaces and nothing in common :-( > > An out-of-the-office check can only be done IF we know how each mail > client > would work, I don't think this is something we can and want to do. > > > > Dirk. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of David Webster > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:06 AM > To: salive@woodstone.nu > Subject: RE: [SA-list] Major product checks missing? > > How about the ability to query the state of anti virus products > (Symantec)? I'd like to be able to check that AV software running on > server X is running definitions version Y dated Z. Yes, I know that > there is some combination of add-on products and scripts that would do > this for me, but that's not why I use SA. If I could or wanted to code, > I wouldn't need SA. > > Ok, this next one is not a check, but it would be REALLY helpful if SA > could somehow re-check an item that other checks depend on. For > example, a typical series of checks I do is ping a windows box over VPN, > and if that check is up, check a bunch of services, disk space, etc. on > target box. If the VPN goes down midway through the service checks, SA > flags all the services as down, and I get a zillion alerts. It would be > fabulous if SA could, for a group of dependent checks, re-check the > "parent" check after completing the group and if it is now down consider > all the dependant checks UNAVAILABLE. (Just like it does if the parent > check is down initially.) > > Finally, can a check be added to see if I am sending out-of-office > messages to the SA mailing list and then alert me by email (at that same > address) if I am? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 5:37 PM > To: salive@woodstone.nu > Subject: [SA-list] Major product checks missing? > > In SA (and add-ons) there are already a lot of checks for most major > "products". > Things like > perfmon/process/service/wins (addon) are typicaly for > NT/Win2K/Win2K3 > SQL server > Oracle > mail (mailflow addon) > URL (IIS/Apache/...) > *nix (diskspace/process both as addon) > ... > > Anything "major" that is missing? > > First thing that jumps to my "mind" is mySQL ... But that's something > we're > already working on :-) so you don't have to mention that one. > > > > Other ideas are welcome... > > > > Dirk. > > > > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > > > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > [incoming email checked] > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
