RE: [ActiveDir] Server Monitoring
GFI's Network Server Monitor is another to check out.. Works well for us. http://www.gfi.com/nsm/ Nate - Nathan Henderson Network Engineer Northwest University ph 425.889.5358 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Parker Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 6:34 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Server Monitoring Hello all... We are searching for a tool that will monitor server uptime and send out an alert when a server goes down. Anyone have a suggestion? Does not have to be too complicated. Everything is Win2K AD fully spacked. Thank you in advance. John Parker, MCSE IS Admin. Senior Technical Specialist Alpha Display Systems. Alpha Video 7711 Computer Ave. Edina, MN. 55435 952-896-9898 Local 800-388-0008 Watts 952-896-9899 Fax 612-804-8769 Cell 952-841-3327 Direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Be excellent to each other" ---End of Line--- -Original Message- From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 9:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted. I give carte blanche to folks to wack me upside the head if I get too annoying. :-) Rick Kingslan wrote: >Susan, > >Really - I know you too well. You're not going to lurk. Get in the game. >It appears most folks want to hear what you have to say from the Small >Business arena. And, if it broadens the message of managing and >maintaining the systems - it's good for all. > >Just please - stop convincing yourself you're lurking You're aren't! >You're too valuable to do so... > >:o) > >Rick [msft] >-- >Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ... > > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, >CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] >Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 9:02 PM >To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org >Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted. > > > >The consultant crowd who can't handle 300 SBS boxes hitting their inbox >at 6 a.m have asked for a dashboard. I can handle a daily email >they can't. > >At a NTuser group meeting I was at ...some of the dashboard tools in >Linux were discussed. Nagios in particular was one they used for monitoring. > >Monitoring -- MRTG: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher: >http://mrtg.hdl.com/mrtg.html > >Graphical console for Snort - Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases >(ACID): >http://acidlab.sourceforge.net/ > >Intrustion detection - Snort.org: >http://www.snort.org/ > >Monitoring - Nagios: Home: >http://www.nagios.org/ > >Traffic probe - ntop - network top: >http://www.ntop.org/head.html > > > >Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: > > > >>Yup information overload 'is' a problem. >> >>And then after the scale its... okay what the heck is the server >>trying to tell me? >> >>I'm still a fan of www.eventid.net over microsoft.com's click here. >> >>Rick Kingslan wrote: >> >> >> >>>And, as you know that does work well in SBSland. However, when the >>>scale grows, so do the requirements. IN the Medium to Enterprise >>>space, the idea is more along the lines of a system or series of >>>systems pumping this type of information into paging and making >>>intelligent decisions based on the audit, event, alerts, services, >>>etc. >>> >>>Which, is right where MOM 2005 drops into the picture. If it _IS_ >>>the event aggregator, or if it's pushing up to a bigger overall item >>>such as HP OpenView - that data is available. It's just that instead >>>of getting an e-mail per server (most admins would just begin to >>>create a rule to send these to DEV/NUL after a while...) MOM >>>collects, enforces and reports this same type of information. >>> >>>Scale makes the problem much tougher, as I'm sure you can imagine >>> >>>Rick [msft] >>>-- >>>Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ... >>> >>> >>>-Original Message- >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan >>>Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] >>>Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:33 PM >>>To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org >>>Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted. >>> >>> >>> >>>In SBSland we
RE: [ActiveDir] Site IP Change
Thanks Joe, Jorge, Jose, Rick, and Marcus for your thoughts and insight. You've validated my thoughts on the matter. Looks like things should go as close to schedule as I can help. Nate -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:50 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Site IP Change And WINS too You may find you need to delete the domain 1C record(s) and 1B record(s) [1] and force the DCs to refresh the records through NBTSTAT -RR to get them updated. Obviously anything pointing at the DCs for DNS and/or WINS resolution need to be updated. If anyone was silly enough to point specifically at a DC for LDAP services and was even sillier and used an IP address would need to be updated. joe [1] The (s) is in case of multiple domains being involved. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:01 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Site IP Change yep, no reboot required, just need to make sure that you get your DNS straight - could be chaotic if you change the IP addresses of too many DCs at once. Ensure that replication still works before changing the next (may sometimes be required to configure a different primary DNS so that it registers it's addresses with a partner DC) and ensure that you configure in a DC's site clients appropriately to use the new IP address as DNS resolver. /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2005 21:51 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Site IP Change I've done this many times and haven't had to reboot my 2003 DCs. Just fyi... :m:dsm:cci:mvp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:42 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Site IP Change Nathan, I hope you reboot your servers after you change the IP address. As good as the TCP/IP stack has gotten with 2003 server, I still feel it's important to reboot with such changes on a DC. Jose - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:20 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Site IP Change Nathan, Typically, the change of IP address, subnet, default gateway and associated DNS entries will take care of most of what you need. However, there is one more thing that needs to be done. Pull up a command prompt on the DC that you've re-IPed, and type this at the prompt (in its entirety: Net stop netlogon && net start netlogon This will stop the netlogon service, then turn around and restart it automatically. As you might know, the NetLogon service is responsible for maintaining the DNS entries (SRV records, et. al.) and updating those as necessary. The stop/start of the service forces the update to happen 'right now', and will be updated with the new data you've entered. Hope this helps you along in your process. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Henderson Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:59 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Site IP Change We are currently updating our network infrastructure and a part of this is having to change IPs on our internal network. Most devices are pretty simple, but the main point I'm concerned about is changing our DCs. They will all still be in the same subnet just using a different IP range. Is there anything I would need to take care of specially in this situation besides updating DNS information during/after the change to ensure replication between DCs will function? I'm trying to think through possible scenarios or issues that could arise. If anyone has any insight it would be much appreciated. Nate List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.
[ActiveDir] Site IP Change
We are currently updating our network infrastructure and a part of this is having to change IPs on our internal network. Most devices are pretty simple, but the main point I'm concerned about is changing our DCs. They will all still be in the same subnet just using a different IP range. Is there anything I would need to take care of specially in this situation besides updating DNS information during/after the change to ensure replication between DCs will function? I'm trying to think through possible scenarios or issues that could arise. If anyone has any insight it would be much appreciated. Nate List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
RE: [ActiveDir] Batch Account Creation and Removal
No, we're actually in the process of moving to Power Campus from Jenzabar's PX product. It's a big summer of upgrades for us. Thanks for the responses. -Nate From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug M. LongSent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:33 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Batch Account Creation and Removal Nathan, Would you happen to be using Datatel for student/staff/faculty records?? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brown, Bill [contractor]Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:02 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Batch Account Creation and Removal I have a VB script that I wrote to create contacts – I suppose it could easily be modified to generate users. It reads input from an Excel spreadsheet in CVS format, checks for duplicates, and generates an error log [if needed] as it goes. Contact me off-list and I will be glad to share with you… R/Bill -Original Message-----From: Nathan Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 12:50 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Batch Account Creation and Removal Anyone have any great tips for batch creation and removal of accounts? We want to be able to batch create accounts for our students based off either a database or even text file and create their user account, e-mail (in a separate message store), and add them to the correct OUs and groups. Is there anything native that could accomplish this or is the best option a third-party app? -Nate _____ Nathan Henderson Network Engineer Northwest University ph: 425.889.5358 fax: 425.827.2807
[ActiveDir] Batch Account Creation and Removal
Anyone have any great tips for batch creation and removal of accounts? We want to be able to batch create accounts for our students based off either a database or even text file and create their user account, e-mail (in a separate message store), and add them to the correct OUs and groups. Is there anything native that could accomplish this or is the best option a third-party app? -Nate _ Nathan Henderson Network Engineer Northwest University ph: 425.889.5358 fax: 425.827.2807
