RE: Windows Azure VM issues

2012-09-02 Thread Nicholas Oxby
Turns out the VM role in Azure is in Beta and shouldn't be used for
anything but the most trivial sites. Doesn't say that anywhere during
the sign up procedure or when MS takes your credit card details. Lesson
learned.

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2012 5:38 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE: Windows Azure VM issues

 

If there was a problem with the page file (e.g. it couldn't be accessed)
then the server would blue screen (KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR or similar
bugcheck).

 

What's the event details you are seeing? (If you open the event, there's
a copy button you can use to copy all the event details out to
clipboard)

 

Generally, if the OS is shutdown gracefully it doesn't have any capacity
to power itself back on. You need the virtualisation software (or your
UPS if you have a physical machine) to power the machine back on.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Oxby
Sent: Friday, 31 August 2012 10:07 AM
To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
Subject: Windows Azure VM issues

 

Hi All

 

We here at work have just gone down the Azure path to host, what will be
a fairly high traffic site. We've gone the VM route and it's been a bit
problematic. 

 

I could use some advice, or links to advice if anyone has some. 

 

Issue : Server shutdown and didn't reboot at 3am. Nice. Event log says
disk error (I can get the actual number/message if need) and the
services all started to shut down, until the server switched off. We
think it's because the page file has been located (by default) on the
temporary storage drive, not the c:drive. 

 

Is there a good reason why it's been placed on the d:?  Can we move it?
Is this the issue?

 

And

 

Why didn't the server reboot automagically? What setting have we missed
that gets it to restart itself?

 

It's fairly vanilla server, with 2 websites and the smtp service
running.

 

Thanks for your help

 

Nick



Re: Server Monitoring

2012-09-02 Thread Stephen Price
Installed PRTG as I've been looking for something to monitor what my
internation students are doing (they were streaming HD TV at one point...).
It didn't seem to want to run on Windows 8. I guess it either needs a
Server OS or Windows 7?
Shame. It sounds like you guys think its good value. I just want real time
monitoring of bandwidth leeching. (ie downloading movies or
streaming/flooding link)

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:38 AM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote:

 We're trialling this for APC12 and TE12 at the moment. I have nearly 1000
 sensors being monitored with remote probes all over the place at the moment
 and it seems very fast and solid.


 On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:09 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote:

 I just fired up PRTG on a box here and I have to say it looks quite tidy.

 The default sensors configured into the product show that they have been
 around the traps and know what to look for (number of xlates in a Cisco ASA
 as a default rule, for example).


 On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:06 PM, ifum...@gmail.com wrote:

 I like PRTG as well.  I also use ipmonitor v6 (MediaHouse) but is still
 works great and simple.

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 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Castner
 *Sent:* Monday, 27 August 2012 2:56 PM

 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* RE: Server Monitoring

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 Another one to check out is PRTG network monitor. It has worked well for
 us and also has a free (although limited) option.

  

 Cheers,

 Grant

  

  

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 *Subject:* Re: Server Monitoring

  

 It's got a free option we are considering but soon as you step above
 that's it's a nightmare for cost.


 On 25 Aug 2012, at 10:43, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote:
 

 I thought 'splunk' was the 'money is no object' option?

 Sent from my iPhone


 On 25/08/2012, at 7:19 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote:

 If money is no object, SolarWinds

  

 If you want something vaguely approximate that is cheaper: WhatsUpGold.
 

  

 On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea 
 corne...@acorns.com.au wrote:

  

 Hi DotNetters,

  

 Any one has any recommendations for a service/platform/application that
 I can use for monitoring my cloud servers (W2K8,SQL2K8)?

 I'd like to monitor classic stuff: availability, IIS, SQL, maybe a bit
 of disk and CPU. The only important one really is availability (http/https).
 

  

 Regards,

 Corneliu

  



 

  

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