Re: Server Monitoring
On Tuesday 14 Apr 2009, Rob Parkhill wrote: although I am not sure if that is possible with CF. The other thing I could test would be the connection to the database, but I can't seem to find the references to accessing the admin tools in CF8, where I thought that would be possible, so any resource direction would be much appreciated. CFQUERY inside a CFTRY/CFCATCH ? -- Helping to continuously morph professional killer e-tailers as part of the IT team of the year, '09 and '08 Tom Chiverton Developer Tel: +44 0161 618 5032 Fax: +44 0161 618 5099 tom.chiver...@halliwells.com 3 Hardman Square, Manchester, M3 3EB www.Halliwells.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office together with a list of those non members who are referred to as partners. We use the word partner to refer to a member of the LLP, or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.Halliwells.com. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321604 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Server Monitoring
Good Day, Can't come up with a better title, so here is what I want to do. I have two servers, one DB and one web. My DB server is having MASSIVE issues at the moment. CPUs blowing up, and the server shutting down randomly, at night. I would like to use the webserver (with CF8) to monitor the status of the DB server, and was wondering what everyone thought was the best method? I was thinking of checking to see if the domain server (which is controlled by the DB server) was in existence, although I am not sure if that is possible with CF. The other thing I could test would be the connection to the database, but I can't seem to find the references to accessing the admin tools in CF8, where I thought that would be possible, so any resource direction would be much appreciated. Thanks, Rob ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321567 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server Monitoring
This isn't a CF kind of way to do what you are asking, but it might be what you are looking for. We have used Nagios to monitor, log and troubleshoot servers in both of our datacenters and it can be very useful if you just can't sit in front of a machine 24/7. http://www.nagios.org/ http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-windows.html Hope that helps, Dave On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Rob Parkhill wrote: Good Day, Can't come up with a better title, so here is what I want to do. I have two servers, one DB and one web. My DB server is having MASSIVE issues at the moment. CPUs blowing up, and the server shutting down randomly, at night. I would like to use the webserver (with CF8) to monitor the status of the DB server, and was wondering what everyone thought was the best method? I was thinking of checking to see if the domain server (which is controlled by the DB server) was in existence, although I am not sure if that is possible with CF. The other thing I could test would be the connection to the database, but I can't seem to find the references to accessing the admin tools in CF8, where I thought that would be possible, so any resource direction would be much appreciated. Thanks, Rob ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321568 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Server Monitoring
Hi - you dono't say what db you are running - I am guessing SQL Server? I can think of a couple of ways from the CF point of view: 1.Create a cfm file that connects to an instance on your db server. E-mail the results of SELECT GETDATE() AS [CurrentDateTime] to you. Set this up as a scheduled task. 2. Use an external monitoring tool (There are thousands, one we use is host-tracker.com) to hit your test cfm file above, and skip the scheduled task and e-mail step. 3. Use a CF tool like FusionReactor or SeeFusion or a system tool like Nagios to monitor all layers of your setup. 4. Figure out your SQL issue! Maybe CF is causing your issue? FR or SF above may help in that regard. Good luck! On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:27, Rob Parkhill robert.parkh...@gmail.com wrote: Good Day, Can't come up with a better title, so here is what I want to do. I have two servers, one DB and one web. My DB server is having MASSIVE issues at the moment. CPUs blowing up, and the server shutting down randomly, at night. I would like to use the webserver (with CF8) to monitor the status of the DB server, and was wondering what everyone thought was the best method? I was thinking of checking to see if the domain server (which is controlled by the DB server) was in existence, although I am not sure if that is possible with CF. The other thing I could test would be the connection to the database, but I can't seem to find the references to accessing the admin tools in CF8, where I thought that would be possible, so any resource direction would be much appreciated. Thanks, Rob ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321570 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Server Monitoring
If your goal is to diagnose a mystery database issue that is a definite problem, I would use a database monitoring tool, such as MS SQL Profiler. Are you aware of the professional database monitoring tools, such as the ones Quest and Idera make? Where Web site monitoring of the database helps is to ensure that the Web server can connect to the database server, but that doesn't sound like the problem you are describing. What database are you running and what version of CF are you running? I ask about the CF version because CF8 has the query profiling feature built into it, although I would still favor a database query analysis tool if you know the problem is the database. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Rob Parkhill robert.parkh...@gmail.com wrote: Good Day, Can't come up with a better title, so here is what I want to do. I have two servers, one DB and one web. My DB server is having MASSIVE issues at the moment. CPUs blowing up, and the server shutting down randomly, at night. I would like to use the webserver (with CF8) to monitor the status of the DB server, and was wondering what everyone thought was the best method? I was thinking of checking to see if the domain server (which is controlled by the DB server) was in existence, although I am not sure if that is possible with CF. The other thing I could test would be the connection to the database, but I can't seem to find the references to accessing the admin tools in CF8, where I thought that would be possible, so any resource direction would be much appreciated. Thanks, Rob ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321571 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server Monitoring
Oops. You did mention that you run CF8. Have you explored the monitoring feature built into CF8 yet? -Mike Chabot On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote: If your goal is to diagnose a mystery database issue that is a definite problem, I would use a database monitoring tool, such as MS SQL Profiler. Are you aware of the professional database monitoring tools, such as the ones Quest and Idera make? Where Web site monitoring of the database helps is to ensure that the Web server can connect to the database server, but that doesn't sound like the problem you are describing. What database are you running and what version of CF are you running? I ask about the CF version because CF8 has the query profiling feature built into it, although I would still favor a database query analysis tool if you know the problem is the database. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Rob Parkhill robert.parkh...@gmail.com wrote: Good Day, Can't come up with a better title, so here is what I want to do. I have two servers, one DB and one web. My DB server is having MASSIVE issues at the moment. CPUs blowing up, and the server shutting down randomly, at night. I would like to use the webserver (with CF8) to monitor the status of the DB server, and was wondering what everyone thought was the best method? I was thinking of checking to see if the domain server (which is controlled by the DB server) was in existence, although I am not sure if that is possible with CF. The other thing I could test would be the connection to the database, but I can't seem to find the references to accessing the admin tools in CF8, where I thought that would be possible, so any resource direction would be much appreciated. Thanks, Rob ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321572 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server Monitoring
I second Nagios. You can monitor the port required and get alerts by email or sms (if available) On 4/14/09, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote: Oops. You did mention that you run CF8. Have you explored the monitoring feature built into CF8 yet? -Mike Chabot On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote: If your goal is to diagnose a mystery database issue that is a definite problem, I would use a database monitoring tool, such as MS SQL Profiler. Are you aware of the professional database monitoring tools, such as the ones Quest and Idera make? Where Web site monitoring of the database helps is to ensure that the Web server can connect to the database server, but that doesn't sound like the problem you are describing. What database are you running and what version of CF are you running? I ask about the CF version because CF8 has the query profiling feature built into it, although I would still favor a database query analysis tool if you know the problem is the database. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Rob Parkhill robert.parkh...@gmail.com wrote: Good Day, Can't come up with a better title, so here is what I want to do. I have two servers, one DB and one web. My DB server is having MASSIVE issues at the moment. CPUs blowing up, and the server shutting down randomly, at night. I would like to use the webserver (with CF8) to monitor the status of the DB server, and was wondering what everyone thought was the best method? I was thinking of checking to see if the domain server (which is controlled by the DB server) was in existence, although I am not sure if that is possible with CF. The other thing I could test would be the connection to the database, but I can't seem to find the references to accessing the admin tools in CF8, where I thought that would be possible, so any resource direction would be much appreciated. Thanks, Rob ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321573 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server Monitoring in Standard
According to this, it shouldn't be there. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf8_featurecomp.pdf But it is for me, anyone else? ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284989 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Server Monitoring in Standard
Actually, according to that document, it says multiserver monitoring is enterprise only. Could it e that the basic server monitor IS part of standard and ONLY the multiserver monitor is limited to enterprise? ~Brad -Original Message- From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Server Monitoring in Standard According to this, it shouldn't be there. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf8_featurecomp.pdf But it is for me, anyone else? ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285011 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Server Monitoring in Standard
Dang, it's 2 am and apparently I am on the verge of blindness. The document itemizes multiserver monitor and server monitor and API separately and they are both in fact only checked in the enterprise column. In other news, this PDF also answers the question of what is throttled in standard? In CF7 it looks like only PDF generation, flashpaper generation, and structured reporting were single-threaded. CF8 added a lot of items to the standard column, but the following all appear to be single threaded-- limited to one shared simultaneous request PDF form processing PDF document manipulation PDF document manipulation server-side printing Presentation Generation PDF Generation Flashpaper generation Structured reporting MS Exchange server integration Gateway architecture Enterprise IM gateways Asynch CFML gateway SMS gateway JMS gateway TCP/IP Socket gateway Directory watcher gateway And finally cfthread is in standard, but limited to two additional spawned threads. And from the glass half full department I think it is awesome that Adobe has included so many enterprise features in Standard. Better throttled than not there at all. It's almost a wonder the standard price didn't increase too! ~Brad -Original Message- From: Brad Wood Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:14 AM To: 'cf-talk@houseoffusion.com' Subject: RE: Server Monitoring in Standard Actually, according to that document, it says multiserver monitoring is enterprise only. Could it e that the basic server monitor IS part of standard and ONLY the multiserver monitor is limited to enterprise? ~Brad -Original Message- From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Server Monitoring in Standard According to this, it shouldn't be there. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf8_featurecomp.pdf But it is for me, anyone else? ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285014 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Server Monitoring in Standard
You know, maybe you should be quiet before the Adobe mafia show up in black suits and sunglasses and take your server away. Lol ~Brad -Original Message- From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Server Monitoring in Standard According to this, it shouldn't be there. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf8_featurecomp.pdf But it is for me, anyone else? ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285010 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server Monitoring in Standard
Yes, A CF8 Standard Licence (Upgrade). I think someone made a mistake, not that i'm complaining. Regards Dale Fraser ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285001 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server Monitoring in Standard
Doh, It's true, after the server restart I have no more monitoring :( Ohh well, can't say I have ever looked at it much. Regards Dale Fraser ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285012 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server Monitoring in Standard
Dale, When you add a Standard Upgrade license to a Trial version using the CF Admin, then the Standard Edition rules will not take effect until a CF server restart. When you restart the server, the Server Monitoring page will report: --- Server Monitoring Server Monitor This feature is not available in this edition of the ColdFusion server. --- -Steven Erat ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285002 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Server Monitoring in Standard
I'm quite interested in the answer. Perhaps there were only parts of the server monitor only available in ent? ~Brad -Original Message- From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:57 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Server Monitoring in Standard Did I see correctly people complaining about Standard not having Server Monitoring? I just installed with my real Standard licence, and Server Monitoring is there, did I read something wrong? ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285007 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server Monitoring in Standard
S! On 7/31/07, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to this, it shouldn't be there. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf8_featurecomp.pdf But it is for me, anyone else? ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285015 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Server Monitoring in Standard
Unfortunately not, after a reboot can't monitor either. The link to the doc I posted clearly says both are Enterprise. Regards Dale Fraser http://dalefraser.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2007 5:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Server Monitoring in Standard Actually, according to that document, it says multiserver monitoring is enterprise only. Could it e that the basic server monitor IS part of standard and ONLY the multiserver monitor is limited to enterprise? ~Brad -Original Message- From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Server Monitoring in Standard According to this, it shouldn't be there. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf8_featurecomp.pdf But it is for me, anyone else? ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285027 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Server Monitoring in Standard
Have a Linux and don't restart your server! :) -Original Message- From: Steven Erat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Server Monitoring in Standard Dale, When you add a Standard Upgrade license to a Trial version using the CF Admin, then the Standard Edition rules will not take effect until a CF server restart. When you restart the server, the Server Monitoring page will report: --- Server Monitoring Server Monitor This feature is not available in this edition of the ColdFusion server. --- -Steven Erat ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285094 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Server Monitoring in Standard
Did I see correctly people complaining about Standard not having Server Monitoring? I just installed with my real Standard licence, and Server Monitoring is there, did I read something wrong? Regards Dale Fraser http://dalefraser.blogspot.com ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284983 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server Monitoring in Standard
The feature list (http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/editions/) has it as Enterprise only - was it a CF8 license key that you've just purchased? On 8/1/07, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I see correctly people complaining about Standard not having Server Monitoring? I just installed with my real Standard licence, and Server Monitoring is there, did I read something wrong? -- mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284998 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Remote Server Monitoring
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Steve Bryant wrote: I have Googled for such a service and found several options. I am hoping that someone might have experience with a specific service with which they have experience. I've used Cacti in the past, or are you looking for a hosted service ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to proactively mesh edge-of-your-seat market-growth on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277580 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Remote Server Monitoring
I need to be able to remotely monitor whether several sites are running using an automated task. I'm sure that I could write something myself, but if a good service exists for this already then that may be better. I have Googled for such a service and found several options. I am hoping that someone might have experience with a specific service with which they have experience. Thanks, Steve Bryant Bryant Web Consulting LLC http://www.BryantWebConsulting.com/ http://steve.coldfusionjournal.com/ ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277537 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Server Monitoring
We've been using it for a while, and I haven't noticed any load from it... I'm sure there is some overhead, but it's negligible. Russ -Original Message- From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Server Monitoring Hi. Has anybody used this coldfusion monitoring tool here: http://www.seefusion.com If so, can you tell if it creates a load on the server, if at all. I'll appreciate any feedback about it. Thanks, K ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233041 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SQL Server Monitoring with CF
Hi John, what you could do ist to write some sql-statements that retrieve exactly the values you need. In general I use the SQL-Profiler to record the statements I need. Therefore I open the Enterprise Manager and Display the properties of a certain database while having the SQL-Profiler recording every SQL-Statement. From the resulted Statements I extract the ones important to me. For example retrieving every Table or view from a certain database: Select Name from SysObjects Where XType = 'U' It's a little complicated to find the statements you need, but much easier than writing the statements yourself searching the SQL-Server help. You then could run a scheduled task on the cf-server in order to monitor the activity on the server. (But not too often, since it could hurt performance). BTW: Here two statements that returns the size of a certain database: Use [Databasename] SELECT o.fileid, o.name, o.filename, o.groupid, o.size, o.maxsize, o.growth, o.status FROM dbo.sysfiles o WHERE o.groupid = (SELECT u.groupid FROM dbo.sysfilegroups u WHERE u.groupname = N'PRIMARY') and (o.status 0x40) = 0 Go SELECT fileid, name, filename, size, growth, status, maxsize FROM dbo.sysfiles WHERE (status 0x40) 0 Go But you need to have access to the master database in order to retrieve this information. If you need any further information, just contact me off the list. cfgreetings name=Gert Franz location=Switzerland email=[EMAIL PROTECTED] function=Railo Core Developer John Lucania schrieb: I want to monitor the sql server connected to CFMX. What I want is: - the total sizes the sql server drives - free sizes the drives - size of each database in cfmail. Any ideas? Please advise. jl ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230808 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SQL Server Monitoring with CF
Hi JL, you could also use some or a special stored proc: cfquery name=GetDatabases datasource=DatasourceWithSaRights sp_databases /cfquery !--- This is a global stored procedure which returns you exactly what you need --- cfdump var=#GetDatabases# Returns the databasename, the size and remarks of the database cu Gert Franz Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.railo.ch John Lucania schrieb: Gert, Thank you for the tips. I have 40 databases. Is there a way to use 'loop'? If not, it seems I need to repeat the query for each database. Please advise. Thank you, jl -- Forwarded message -- From: Gert Franz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jan 31, 2006 3:45 AM Subject: Re: SQL Server Monitoring with CF To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Hi John, what you could do ist to write some sql-statements that retrieve exactly the values you need. In general I use the SQL-Profiler to record the statements I need. Therefore I open the Enterprise Manager and Display the properties of a certain database while having the SQL-Profiler recording every SQL-Statement. From the resulted Statements I extract the ones important to me. For example retrieving every Table or view from a certain database: Select Name from SysObjects Where XType = 'U' It's a little complicated to find the statements you need, but much easier than writing the statements yourself searching the SQL-Server help. You then could run a scheduled task on the cf-server in order to monitor the activity on the server. (But not too often, since it could hurt performance). BTW: Here two statements that returns the size of a certain database: Use [Databasename] SELECT o.fileid, o.name, o.filename, o.groupid, o.size, o.maxsize, o.growth, o.status FROM dbo.sysfiles o WHERE o.groupid = (SELECT u.groupid FROM dbo.sysfilegroups u WHERE u.groupname = N'PRIMARY') and (o.status 0x40) = 0 Go SELECT fileid, name, filename, size, growth, status, maxsize FROM dbo.sysfiles WHERE (status 0x40) 0 Go But you need to have access to the master database in order to retrieve this information. If you need any further information, just contact me off the list. cfgreetings name=Gert Franz location=Switzerland email=[EMAIL PROTECTED] function=Railo Core Developer John Lucania schrieb: I want to monitor the sql server connected to CFMX. What I want is: - the total sizes the sql server drives - free sizes the drives - size of each database in cfmail. Any ideas? Please advise. jl ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230833 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CFMX Server Monitoring
Greetings, John. You could use our SeeFusion product for this type of monitoring. Built-in notifications are coming in the next version, but in the meantime it would be very simple to monitor our XML or database dumps for memory or running request thresholds, and send off an email when needed. More info is at http://www.seefusion.com. Let us know if you have any questions at all. Best, Patrick Quinn www.seefusion.com I want to monitor the CPU and Memory usage of CFMX Server when the CPU (i.e. 30%) and Memory (i.e. 100,000K) usage hits certain threshold so that I can know who runs heavy duty jobs and which process takes resources. I want this info in cfmail. Any ideas? ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230883 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
SQL Server Monitoring with CF
I want to monitor the sql server connected to CFMX. What I want is: - the total sizes the sql server drives - free sizes the drives - size of each database in cfmail. Any ideas? Please advise. jl ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230729 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: SQL Server Monitoring with CF
Hi John, You can monitor SQL db sizes from Windows Performance Monitor and schedule an alert to trigger when the db size goes over a value. The alert can run an external script (a batch file for example). Perhaps you could have the script create a file that a scheduled CF task subsequently looks to see if it has been created and create a cfmail if found? Jenny -Original Message- From: John Lucania [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2006 14:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL Server Monitoring with CF I want to monitor the sql server connected to CFMX. What I want is: - the total sizes the sql server drives - free sizes the drives - size of each database in cfmail. Any ideas? Please advise. jl ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230751 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
CFMX Server Monitoring
I want to monitor the CPU and Memory usage of CFMX Server when the CPU (i.e. 30%) and Memory (i.e. 100,000K) usage hits certain threshold so that I can know who runs heavy duty jobs and which process takes resources. I want this info in cfmail. Any ideas? ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230757 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Server monitoring tools
First Flash interface Tsk Tsk nope. =] !k www.keslabs.com/crd - Original Message - From: Patrick Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:36 AM Subject: Re: Server monitoring tools Hey Ken. Another option here would be our SeeFusion tool. It's tailored specifically to ColdFusion, it's cheap, and can be used for both ongoing monitoring and quick troubleshooting. The XML dump and database logging are particularly useful for monitoring purposes. SeeFusion 3 is coming out before MAX, and here's a quick preview: * Dynamic configuration via new Web interface (no more editing web.xml and restarting) * Debug output, including stack trace filtering (improvement over enabling debugging in ColdFusion administrator) * Streaming debug output (for viewing debug output from all requests in a separate browser) * Easily monitor multiple servers, including on ongoing basis via database logging * Memory, throughput, query and network (and Web server connector) metrics, including new uptime metric * Improved kill feature for stopping long-running/hung threads * Improved health status indicators for Enterprise edition dashboard display * Improved HTML interface (expandable rows) * First Flash interface (Note: may be delayed for a subsequent release) * And more You can download (free trial) at www.seefusion.com. Version 3.0 will be up there within a couple of weeks. We've also used Paessler products in our consulting practice. They're a nice little company, and they make very good tools. Best, Patrick Quinn Do you SeeFusion? www.seefusion.com ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:219393 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Server monitoring tools
Hehe. Of course I meant the first Flash interface for SeeFusion, not for monitoring tools in general. We're well aware of the CRD's spiffy Flash interface. Nice work! Best, Patrick First Flash interface Tsk Tsk nope. =] !k www.keslabs.com/crd - Original Message - From: Patrick Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:36 AM Subject: Re: Server monitoring tools ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:219439 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Server monitoring tools
On Monday 26 September 2005 23:07, Ken Ketsdever wrote: #1. What cheap or free monitoring software would you recommend? We use Mon for real-time alerts and Cacti for trend analysis and graphs for mangers to go 'o a' at. Both are LAMP stack applications and free. -- Tom Chiverton Advanced ColdFusion Programmer ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:219457 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Server monitoring tools
Hey Ken. Another option here would be our SeeFusion tool. It's tailored specifically to ColdFusion, it's cheap, and can be used for both ongoing monitoring and quick troubleshooting. The XML dump and database logging are particularly useful for monitoring purposes. SeeFusion 3 is coming out before MAX, and here's a quick preview: * Dynamic configuration via new Web interface (no more editing web.xml and restarting) * Debug output, including stack trace filtering (improvement over enabling debugging in ColdFusion administrator) * Streaming debug output (for viewing debug output from all requests in a separate browser) * Easily monitor multiple servers, including on ongoing basis via database logging * Memory, throughput, query and network (and Web server connector) metrics, including new uptime metric * Improved kill feature for stopping long-running/hung threads * Improved health status indicators for Enterprise edition dashboard display * Improved HTML interface (expandable rows) * First Flash interface (Note: may be delayed for a subsequent release) * And more You can download (free trial) at www.seefusion.com. Version 3.0 will be up there within a couple of weeks. We've also used Paessler products in our consulting practice. They're a nice little company, and they make very good tools. Best, Patrick Quinn Do you SeeFusion? www.seefusion.com ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:219338 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Server monitoring tools
The operations side of the house here has no performance monitoring software in place (unbelievable but true). As we build and deploy new Web Servers we would like to get a performance baseline before we install CF. Then again after it's installed. We would then use the same tool to monitor daily performance. #1. What cheap or free monitoring software would you recommend? #2. If we could pay for it what would you recommend? PS. All of our boxes are Windows boxes. We are moving from win2k server to win2003 servers. We are also moving from cf mx 6.1 Standard to 7.0 Enterprise. Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete any copies of this message. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:219298 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Server monitoring tools
Check out http://www.paessler.com/ We've been using the whole suite of products for a while now. Pretty good for the price. You can also do some nice stuff with http://www.cacti.net/ if you have the technical know how. It's free. -e -Original Message- From: Ken Ketsdever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 6:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Server monitoring tools The operations side of the house here has no performance monitoring software in place (unbelievable but true). As we build and deploy new Web Servers we would like to get a performance baseline before we install CF. Then again after it's installed. We would then use the same tool to monitor daily performance. #1. What cheap or free monitoring software would you recommend? #2. If we could pay for it what would you recommend? PS. All of our boxes are Windows boxes. We are moving from win2k server to win2003 servers. We are also moving from cf mx 6.1 Standard to 7.0 Enterprise. Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete any copies of this message. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:219306 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Server monitoring tools
Quoting Ken Ketsdever [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The operations side of the house here has no performance monitoring software in place (unbelievable but true). Not so unbelievable. Pretty common, actually. As we build and deploy new Web Servers we would like to get a performance baseline before we install CF. Then again after it's installed. We would then use the same tool to monitor daily performance. Makes sense. #1. What cheap or free monitoring software would you recommend? If you have the ability to build yourself a Linux box (I'm totally happy to help), I can thoroughly recommend Nagios (www.nagios.org). We use it here at work to monitor a distributed environment (three cities) of around 200 hosts including switches, routers and servers on multiple platforms - Win2K/2K3, Cisco IOS, SuSE, Solaris, Oracle DB, etc. With a little work, you can even get it to monitor process-level activity on hosts. It's *extremely* powerful, if a little laborious to set up initially. Once it's done, however, you have as good a monitoring system as you'll get anywhere, no matter what you pay. #2. If we could pay for it what would you recommend? I wouldn't - use Nagios. PS. All of our boxes are Windows boxes. We are moving from win2k server to win2003 servers. We are also moving from cf mx 6.1 Standard to 7.0 Enterprise. Not a challenge. Like I said, if you'd like some help getting this set up I'm happy to give you a hand via email or IM. It's definitely worth it. Steve -- Steve Collins E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W www.stephencollins.org ICQ 1014940 | MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yahoo trib Google Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Skype trib22 The ACME Guide - Best practice development using Apache - ColdFusion MX - MySQL - Eclipse/CFEclipse www.stephencollins.org/acme/ This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:219307 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
SOT: Server Monitoring
What monitoring software do you use on your web servers? Can you recommend a monitoring software package that is relatively inexpensive? I have looked at ipmonitor.com and I do like it, but the price tag is a little high for me at this point. Any suggestions? --- Ricky Fritzsching ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:183993 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SOT: Server Monitoring
Ricky Fritzsching wrote: What monitoring software do you use on your web servers? http://www.nagios.org/ Jochem ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:183996 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: SOT: Server Monitoring
Jochem: Thx for the info. It looks like this is *NIX based and my goal in life is to retire Bill Gates great grandchildren. So in other words I am on W2K3. Any other suggestions? -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: Server Monitoring Ricky Fritzsching wrote: What monitoring software do you use on your web servers? http://www.nagios.org/ Jochem ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184052 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: SOT: Server Monitoring
Thx for the info. It looks like this is *NIX based and my goal in life is to retire Bill Gates great grandchildren. So in other words I am on W2K3. Any other suggestions? You can run Nagios from a machine other than your web servers. You might consider throwing up a cheap Linux box just to run this and other network services you might need. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184054 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SOT: Server Monitoring
Dave Watts wrote: You can run Nagios from a machine other than your web servers. You might consider throwing up a cheap Linux box just to run this and other network services you might need. That's how Nagios is set up here. It is piggybagged on another server which runs for something else on a system at a distance of 1 router and 3 switches of the servers: http://spike.oli.tudelft.nl/jochemd/tools/statusmap.png I don't run it, I just get alerts when something is wrong :-) The nice thing is that it does not just monitor servers, it monitors the network itself and also individual services on the servers (you can get a CF-down notification without a server-down notification). While there are many alternatives for Unix (Big Brother, Big Sister, Little Brother etc.), I don't know of any for Win2003. Jochem ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184059 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Server Monitoring
ServersAlive. The interface needs a bit of help, but it works and it's cheap. http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/ Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 -Original Message- From: Ricky Fritzsching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: SOT: Server Monitoring What monitoring software do you use on your web servers? Can you recommend a monitoring software package that is relatively inexpensive? I have looked at ipmonitor.com and I do like it, but the price tag is a little high for me at this point. Any suggestions? --- Ricky Fritzsching ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184060 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SOT: Server Monitoring
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn131extID=1002287 Nothing like IPMonitor et al, but its free. I used it with a hosted CF server dedicated to the task for about a year, and have run it off a home dsl connection (I have an extra CF server license I'm not using) for maybe two more since. Monitors smtp, pop, http, https, cf and db, although generally all I do is smtp, pop and a single combined test that scans a cfml page that has a touch of query output on it to do a combined test of cf/db/http. -- --Matt Robertson-- President, Janitor MSB Designs, Inc. mysecretbase.com ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184061 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SOT: Server Monitoring
Nagios is a great utility! I absolutely love it. That said, if you're looking for something else that's free and Win based and doesn't need to be too complex, why not use Performance Monitor? It's installed on every server you've got already, has all of the performance metrics you'd really need and still lets you configure thresholds, generate email, etc. I wouldn't recommend running it on your web servers, but if you have a file server or something running non-processor intensive applications, you could configure a single machine to monitor all of your servers. You can find more info here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q143185/ http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn131extID=1002287 Nothing like IPMonitor et al, but its free. I used it with a hosted CF server dedicated to the task for about a year, and have run it off a home dsl connection (I have an extra CF server license I'm not using) for maybe two more since. Monitors smtp, pop, http, https, cf and db, although generally all I do is smtp, pop and a single combined test that scans a cfml page that has a touch of query output on it to do a combined test of cf/db/http. -- --Matt Robertson-- President, Janitor MSB Designs, Inc. mysecretbase.com ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184063 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Server Monitoring
ServersAlive is a good product. Version 5 will be out soon. One of the new features that I was told Ver 5 will have is the ability to install ServersAlive on each of your servers then set one (Or your desktop) as master. This master one will have the ability to check / display all of the stats (Drive space, CPU uilt. Servies, etc) of the slave ServersAlive clients. Also, if one of the servers in this group goes down each member of the group check to see if they can see the down server then the group will send one page / email, rather then each of the members sending their own page. It will be interesting to see how they implement this. Mark W. Breneman -Cold Fusion Developer -Network Administrator Vivid Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 -Original Message- From: Ben Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Server Monitoring ServersAlive. The interface needs a bit of help, but it works and it's cheap. http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/ Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 -Original Message- From: Ricky Fritzsching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: SOT: Server Monitoring What monitoring software do you use on your web servers? Can you recommend a monitoring software package that is relatively inexpensive? I have looked at ipmonitor.com and I do like it, but the price tag is a little high for me at this point. Any suggestions? --- Ricky Fritzsching ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184064 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Server monitoring tools
http://woodstone.nu/ Server's Alive. Free for up to 10 services. Monitors everything from Services to number of files in a directory to URL checks to pings, you name it. Can, reboot, notify by pager or e-mail when down and when back up, restart the service, run a program, etc. It can be set to take action on Second knock. It's pretty much been a lifesaver for me. -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
OT: Server logging tools [Was server monitoring tools]
Hello CFlers, thank you all for your contributions on this issue. Indeed all the software you guys mentioned didn't really focus on what we need. O.K. Mutek's Appsight is a monitoring tool as well, but what is more interesting in this tool is the fact that it is logging every activity on the computer. Every thread, every handle every *.exe-activity on NT/2000 machines. I look for such a tool rather than tools like Ipswitch's What's UP. Forgive my unclear decriptions of our needs on the first question. AppSight itself is as I said far too expensive. Thanks for further ideas. Uwe - Original Message - From: Conrad Classen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:53 AM Subject: RE: Server monitoring tools Have you had a look at WhatsUp Gold by Ipswitch.com Quiet a comprehensive solution, and monitors remote systems as well. Has Alerts which can be sent via SMTP or a pager. It can also monitor DNS, SMTP, Telnet, HTTP, etc. Conrad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Server monitoring tools Hi, does s.o. know any good server monitoring tools like Mutek's AppSight ( www.mutek.com ) ? This tool is far too expensive (but indeed very nice) for me. We have some freezing-problems with our Win-NT-CF-server and nothing is showing in the logs. Thanks ! Uwe ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Server monitoring tools
Well, there is the one that comes as a part of IIS. I'm not sure, however, whether or not you can install it on Windows 2000 Professional. If not, you might check out Mercury (http://www.pmail.com/) by the folks who make the Pegasus E-mail client. I've never used it myself but it is free. Benjamin S. Rogers http://www.c4.net/ v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Server monitoring tools Looks good. I'm looking for something like this so I can get rid of my $30/month hosting acct that runs my own monitor. Need to spend a little time on that project. Since I use Apache at home I have to find a dirt-basic smtp that runs on win2k pro. Anyone have any ideas on that? Its sole purpose would be to send monitor emails if something goes down. - Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com - - Original Message - From: Mike Brunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pretty basic, reasonable price ($70.00 for single user) but we like it http://servermonitoringsoftware.com/ ~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Server monitoring tools
Wow. I wound up using a CF monitor I wrote (too much text being pumped thru to my cell phone on the other systems' email alerts), and an open relay from my ISP (I can't use the Win smtp service as I'm running Apache here at home) But this definitely bears looking into. I don't like having to rely on an open relay server. Thanks, --Matt-- - Original Message - From: Benjamin S. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, there is the one that comes as a part of IIS. I'm not sure, however, whether or not you can install it on Windows 2000 Professional. If not, you might check out Mercury (http://www.pmail.com/) by the folks who make the Pegasus E-mail client. I've never used it myself but it is free. ~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
OT: Server monitoring tools
Hi, does s.o. know any good server monitoring tools like Mutek's AppSight ( www.mutek.com ) ? This tool is far too expensive (but indeed very nice) for me. We have some freezing-problems with our Win-NT-CF-server and nothing is showing in the logs. Thanks ! Uwe ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Server monitoring tools
Pretty basic, reasonable price ($70.00 for single user) but we like it http://servermonitoringsoftware.com/ Kind Regards - Mike Brunt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Server monitoring tools Hi, does s.o. know any good server monitoring tools like Mutek's AppSight ( www.mutek.com ) ? This tool is far too expensive (but indeed very nice) for me. We have some freezing-problems with our Win-NT-CF-server and nothing is showing in the logs. Thanks ! Uwe ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Server monitoring tools
For a cheap tool: Servers Alive by Woodstone Computer Consulting Price: 10 Hosts Free; $90 USD to Register for Unlimited Hosts URL: http://www.woodstone.nu/ For something a little more robust: ipMonitor by DeepMetrix (Formerly MediaHouse Software) Price: $695 USD URL: http://www.deepmetrix.com/ Benjamin S. Rogers http://www.c4.net/ v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 3:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Server monitoring tools Hi, does s.o. know any good server monitoring tools like Mutek's AppSight ( www.mutek.com ) ? This tool is far too expensive (but indeed very nice) for me. We have some freezing-problems with our Win-NT-CF-server and nothing is showing in the logs. Thanks ! Uwe ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Server monitoring tools
Looks good. I'm looking for something like this so I can get rid of my $30/month hosting acct that runs my own monitor. Need to spend a little time on that project. Since I use Apache at home I have to find a dirt-basic smtp that runs on win2k pro. Anyone have any ideas on that? Its sole purpose would be to send monitor emails if something goes down. - Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com - - Original Message - From: Mike Brunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pretty basic, reasonable price ($70.00 for single user) but we like it http://servermonitoringsoftware.com/ ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Server monitoring tools
may be, you should do a test to your memory... Mahmut Basaran [measure twice, cut once] - Original Message - From: Mike Brunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:04 PM Subject: RE: Server monitoring tools Pretty basic, reasonable price ($70.00 for single user) but we like it http://servermonitoringsoftware.com/ Kind Regards - Mike Brunt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Server monitoring tools Hi, does s.o. know any good server monitoring tools like Mutek's AppSight ( www.mutek.com ) ? This tool is far too expensive (but indeed very nice) for me. We have some freezing-problems with our Win-NT-CF-server and nothing is showing in the logs. Thanks ! Uwe ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
OT: Server monitoring tools
A test to memory? looks like it eats between 5 and 7mb. Is that what you meant? I downloaded from servermonitoringtools.com, and set it up. Worked great, and I set up an email alert using an open relay provided by my ISP. Used the test email feature to test the connection. That test arrived with an embedded url from some place called ITUtils.com. So I went there and... Found an identical product called WebCheck. Except its half the price, and the demo period is twice as long. Plus I see a v5.0 in beta right now not mentioned at the 'original' site. At a guess ITUtils is the true developer and the other guys are just resellers. --Matt-- - Original Message - From: Mahmut Basaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:23 PM Subject: Re: Server monitoring tools may be, you should do a test to your memory... Mahmut Basaran [measure twice, cut once] ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Server monitoring tools
Have you taken a look at Swatch over at Defusion: http://www.defusion.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=45 I'm not familiar with the features of the commercial apps mentioned but Swatch has worked well for me in the past when I've tested it. Worth a look perhaps... Ken -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 6:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Server monitoring tools A test to memory? looks like it eats between 5 and 7mb. Is that what you meant? I downloaded from servermonitoringtools.com, and set it up. Worked great, and I set up an email alert using an open relay provided by my ISP. Used the test email feature to test the connection. That test arrived with an embedded url from some place called ITUtils.com. So I went there and... Found an identical product called WebCheck. Except its half the price, and the demo period is twice as long. Plus I see a v5.0 in beta right now not mentioned at the 'original' site. At a guess ITUtils is the true developer and the other guys are just resellers. --Matt-- - Original Message - From: Mahmut Basaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:23 PM Subject: Re: Server monitoring tools may be, you should do a test to your memory... Mahmut Basaran [measure twice, cut once] ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Server monitoring tools
Forgive my english, I mean a ram test. You can download a ram test software from download.com. Last month we were having the same problems, and after 2 days of debugging we found out that it was our rams that caused the server crash. Mahmut Basaran [Measure Twice, Cut Once] - Original Message - From: Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:52 AM Subject: OT: Server monitoring tools A test to memory? looks like it eats between 5 and 7mb. Is that what you meant? I downloaded from servermonitoringtools.com, and set it up. Worked great, and I set up an email alert using an open relay provided by my ISP. Used the test email feature to test the connection. That test arrived with an embedded url from some place called ITUtils.com. So I went there and... Found an identical product called WebCheck. Except its half the price, and the demo period is twice as long. Plus I see a v5.0 in beta right now not mentioned at the 'original' site. At a guess ITUtils is the true developer and the other guys are just resellers. --Matt-- - Original Message - From: Mahmut Basaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:23 PM Subject: Re: Server monitoring tools may be, you should do a test to your memory... Mahmut Basaran [measure twice, cut once] ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Server monitoring tools
Yes. I tried it some time ago; running it on my production box, back before I was able to get a dsl connection here. Unfortunately there was some sort of conflict and the server kept wanting to crash with swatch loaded into memory. I was just over at defusion.com downloading another copy to see if it can monitor a remote url, send both up and down alerts and use a mail server not resident on the same box, then it'd probably be the way to go. -_Matt-- - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you taken a look at Swatch over at Defusion: http://www.defusion.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=45 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Server monitoring tools
As best I recall, it can monitor any url, send a down alert based on url failure and send an email via any specified mail server. I don't think it can send an up alert though. Ken -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 7:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Server monitoring tools Yes. I tried it some time ago; running it on my production box, back before I was able to get a dsl connection here. Unfortunately there was some sort of conflict and the server kept wanting to crash with swatch loaded into memory. I was just over at defusion.com downloading another copy to see if it can monitor a remote url, send both up and down alerts and use a mail server not resident on the same box, then it'd probably be the way to go. -_Matt-- - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you taken a look at Swatch over at Defusion: http://www.defusion.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=45 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
