Hmm - try using square brackets like [Count] instead of the single
quotes and see what happens.
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"Stoop and you'll be stepped on;
stand tall and you'll be shot at."
Carlos A. Urbizo
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Assuming your extranet is database-driven, use a separate database-driven page that
doesn't require login - say, called, /serversalive.asp. That page should do a simple
database query that should always return data. In my case, I do a select sum(1) from
our clients table - which should always
set that up as an external check some
how to have SA look at the webpage that is generated? I can't think of a way to
do it with SA's built in web check. That sounds like an ideal method just
to be able to keep a watch on it...
Thanks
Jesse.
From: Brent G. Ozar
[
Title: RE: [SA-list] On Call Rota
The way we do it is to set up all alerts for every check,
and use teams. Every check has an email, MSN, ICQ, and AIM alert on it for
the default team.
Then, each user can have their own alerting preferences for
different hours. For example, I have mine se
I have a low-tech method of monitoring it. I have a
"home page" that I leave my browser up on my desktop at all times, and it's set
to refresh to itself every 5 minutes. That page is actually an
ServersAlive ASP template (among other things) so I can see how my servers are
doing.
The pag
Yeah, actually, I'm thinking about doing something similar to what
you're doing:
- Create a template that has the fields I need, but a comma-delimited
file instead of HTML
- At the end of each cycle, have a batch file call a DTS job to import
that data into SQL
It's extremely duct-tape-y, but it
Is there a way we
could add an additional output to database that would list all of the current
checks? I'm trying to build an uptime page, but when a server has never
gone down, it won't show up in the Stats table. I'd love it if we could
have an output table that included the UniqueID, P
Right, that's why we all said to try it manually - meaning, tracerts,
pings, etc. Whenever I have connectivity issues, the first thing I do
is try to replicate it outside of ServersAlive. If I can verify that
the ping/tracert/etc works while SA fails, then it's an SA problem.
Otherwise (and usual
Along the lines of Michael's suggestion, I would also try disconnecting
the lan, manually connecting the dialup, and doing various ping/tracert
manual tests from the command line to make sure the SMTP host was
actually reachable over the DUN connection.
Brent Oza
Ahmed, here's a thought. Everybody here is more than
willing to help you, but you gotta put in a little effort. Time after
time, I see you whining about why things don't work, but you won't read manuals
and won't take troubleshooting steps that people suggest.
Dirk, the author of a sof
What web server are you using for your template? If you're using Microsoft IIS, you
can write VBscript code to modify SA's default output for any tag and modify it. If
you email me the template code offlist, I can probably code it pretty easily.
Brent
From
If you "own" the web page, and you can put some ASP (or whatever
language) code into it, it'd be pretty easy. Can you change the
content, and what language is it in?
Brent
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Behalf Of Jim
Sent: Sunday, December 14,
uot;
Where his screen shot is captured as a image. If he made a CRC of the
image for either both the good or the good and bad. Then it may work.
Any way just ramblings of a Mad Man.
Davey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Brent G. Ozar
Sent
He's not talking about a web page, but rather a Windows program.
Brent
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"Kids, this is a message from your Uncle Billy.
Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star,
and they give them to you for free!"
Billy
Does the window title of the application change? If so, you can use a
program like Winbatch to monitor for certain window titles, like any
that contain "My Program Name - Error" and have Winbatch do certain
things that would trigger an SA alert.
Brent Ozar - Uni
I think he means if a check is on maintenance for X hours, he wants to
be alerted.
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"Kids, this is a message from your Uncle Billy.
Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star,
and they give them to you for free!"
Here comes the web developer again. :-D
Here's what I would do: create a web template that only shows the down
checks. This template could be HTML, or for that matter, it could be
plain text.
Then, send the contents of the file using Postie, my favorite
command-line email tool:
http://www.infr
O! Even better. Good
one.
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana
Ross,
now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little
beard
going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the e
t] New type of
check?
Our prod servers must be physically
logged in... we have the registry set to clear the last used userid and such
these are all servers, NT 4.0 & Win2K. Our security gestapo have an issue with auto-logged in
servers... guess I do too... Greg
What do you mean by "logged in"? Is this a server OS,
or a workstation OS? Does a user have to physically log in, or is it using
a TweakUI-style utility to automatically log in a user?
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"All of a
Hi, Jim! I'd definitely be interested. I've been logging to SQL since v4 came out,
and loving every minute of it. I've written a low-end system to do some basic reading
out of the log database - it's listed as the last template in my set at
http://www.brentozar.com/salive/ - and I enjoy playi
t Quinn
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From: Brent G. Ozar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 October 2003 13:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] sa_group_name variable problems...
For a list of most of the tags (not including some that have been added
in beta versions), you can look at
Also, almost forgot - you probably want to go to beta.woodstone.nu and
grab the latest version. It's got a lot of cool new template tag
improvements. You can install it without losing functionality or
anything like that - it's just a straight upgrade over the old one.
-
For a list of most of the tags (not including some that have been added
in beta versions), you can look at the SA manual, also available online
here:
http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/doc/html/
The way you're trying to use the tag won't work because
the tag is only valid inside a group header. He
This is where the SA dependencies are helpful. You set up one basic
ping check to make sure the VPN is up, then you can set your other
checks to depend on that check. That way, when the VPN link fails, you
don't get 50 different alerts for remote machines when the real problem
is just the VPN lin
At the risk of sounding flippant, Gene, instead of asking us what's
important to your business, it would probably be better to tell us
what's important to your business, and then asking us how to monitor it.
For example, if I just ask you guys what I should monitor here at my
company, I'd get a th
And we'll answer it again: yes, lots of us are. RealVNC is not a VPN.
If you've got specific questions, like "How do I set up a VPN from one
office to another?" we can definitely point you toward resources, but
the question here is kind of general because there are dozens and dozens
of VPN product
Just a thought: you can create XML files with ServersAlive that
accomplish the 3rd part, and use those as a datasource for most modern
programming languages & web scripting languages. I've got an example on
my tutorials at http://www.brentozar.com/salive/default.aspx of how to
do it. I'm not show
But you don't want to build reports around the up/down numbers.
Remember, you can change check frequencies, like have 2 minutes per
check during 8am-6pm, 5 minutes per check off hours and weekends. Plus,
different checks can have different frequencies (some checks are only
done once every 3-4-5 pa
They always get reset. If you want real accuracy, what you really want
to do is use the Enterprise version and log to SQL, so you can run
trending reports.
Brent
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mark Fowkes
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2
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Brent Ozar - UniFocus
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"Aluminum to me,
aluminium to some
You can shine like silver all you want
But you're just aluminum."
Barenaked Ladies, Aluminum
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EM
Interesting idea! You could do it with an ASP web template pretty
easily. You can add the below code to an existing template, or add a
new one with just this code, which checks to see if the template has
been updated in the last 15 minutes:
<%
Dim intMinSinceLastCheck
intMinSinceLastCheck = Date
The SMTP server you're using in SA probably refuses to
forward messages to VZW. Try checking the "Send Direct" mail in the
ServersAlive SMTP setup screen.
Refusing to forward for other domains is a pretty common
effort to stop spam.
Brent
Brent Oza
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Brent G. Ozar
Sent: Tue Oct 21 11:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Wish List - Multiple threads for servers alive
I hate to disagree with you about your own program, but per this page:
http://www.woodstone.nu/saliv
arted =
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!!
Regards
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Brent G. Ozar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 October 2003 12:32
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Templates
Hi, Mark! I'm the guy who wrote the templates.
On the page
Hi, Mark! I'm the guy who wrote the templates.
On the page you linked to, I've got several tutorials that explain how
the ASP code works, but I guess I'm missing some basic info.
There's a great getting-started tutorial about ASP at
http://webproasp.com/webproasp-27-20030211A-Beginners-Guide-t
I hate to disagree with you about your own program, but per this page:
http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/purchase.asp
"With the Standard Edition you can check upto 1000 entries, with the
Enterprise Edition upto 5000 entries. The Enterprise edition also
includes ODBC logging (direct logging to a data
Title: Message
N, no no no. Mind your language. You should
never use the FF word in public. Use XML, you naughty
boy.
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
A man is known by the company he avoids.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ma
Title: Message
The easy way to do this is to run VMware from www.VMware.com. You can run multiple
instances of operating systems on a single machine, so for example you can have
3 different Windows versions running simultaneously on the same
box.
It's not cheap, but the great part is that
Send Dirk $179, and he'll tell you how. ;-)
Brent
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
A man is known by the company he avoids.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Michael Shook
Sent: Tues
Actually, it depends on the Terminal Services mode. If Terminal
Services is installed in Administrator Mode (meaning only 2 users can be
logged in simultaneously), then Windows doesn't map the home directories
like that. You can install it just fine in Admin Mode.
I office out of Houston, all
Title: ServersAlive and Exchange Server 5.5
Works great for us with both Exchange 5.5
and 2000, but remember that if you’re trying to send an email to
domainA.com and your Exchange server is domainB.com, if you have relaying
turned off then it won’t work.
-
Title: RE: [SA-list] SMTP setup
Have you let it run through a few
updates? If you’ve got
dependencies, and you’re checking the dependent items first, then it may
take a few passes through the updates to get them marked as available again.
Ideally, if you’ve got a check that
other thin
dennis.uxb.net/
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:salive-owner@;woodstone.nu]On
Behalf
Of Brent G. Ozar
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Bar graphs for disk space
Wooo! Due to instant demand, I just went ahead and put my template
ve-owner@;woodstone.nu]On
Behalf Of Brent G. Ozar
Sent: Fri Oct 25 4:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] v4 request
HAHAHAHAHA, ah-thankyou, ah-thankyouverramuch.
If that blows you away, just wait til SA4 comes out. I'm building a
web-based help desk system that integrates wit
rent Ozar - UniFocus
"Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war."
Larry Wall
-Original Message-
From: Roland Gaspar [mailto:rgaspar@;patlq.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:35 PM
To: Brent G. Ozar; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] v4 request
No no no no
[SA-list] v4 request
Holy brackets BatMan ;-)
Very slick!
-----Original Message-
From: Brent G. Ozar
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002
10:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] v4 request
Wooohoo! Here we go. Dynamic filtering
n order for
these bar graphs to work.
Have you managed to correct this? Because I think I have but something
else is flaky and not working as I expected. I'll let you know shortly.
- Mark
> -Original Message-
> From: Brent G. Ozar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent:
Mark, I tell ya, you're just a fountain of inspiration. (Just FYI, I
added pie charts to my examples at http://www.brentozar.com/salive.)
It'd actually be pretty easy to create multiple pages out of just a
single SA template page. I can think of two ways off the top of my
head: by using the SA r
intStart-1)))
intGreen = Round(intResponse / intFullSize * 100,0)
intRed = 100 - intGreen
Response.Write("")
Response.Write("")
End If
%>
ServersAlive Version 3.3.1135. 1 cycles since started.
"Brent G. Ozar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@woodstone.nu on 24/10/2002
Gaskell@;eu.fmo.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Bar graphs for disk space
Brent,
I have tried you template with 1 check. I can't seem to get it to work.
The bar chart box appears blank. Is there something I am doing wrong or
doe
ace
Looks good. I'd like a copy of your template.
p.s. the link to your tips gives 404!!
-----Original Message-
From: Brent G. Ozar [mailto:brento@;brentozar.com]
Sent: 24 October 2002 12:54
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SA-list] Bar graphs for disk space
OK, Mark, here's the
From: Mike Tree [mailto:mike.tree@;clever4.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:03 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Bar graphs for disk space
Looks good. I'd like a copy of your template.
p.s. the link to your tips gives 404!!
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From
OK, Mark, here's the full answer, assuming your web server (that's
serving up the SA report template) can handle VBscript ASP. You'll want
to name the output file with an .asp extension, like default.asp, so
that the web server knows to process the logic.
The objective here is to end up with a re
Mark - what a brilliant idea! I couldn't go to bed until I worked it
out! I'll post a more detailed message tomorrow, but the ServersAlive
HTML template I'm using is here:
http://www.brentozar.com/salive/explanation.aspx
To see an example of what it looks like, go here and look at the last
chec
Why don't you set up dependencies? I've got a similar situation (on a
much smaller scale) and I set up a ping check for each server. All of
the other checks for that particular server are dependent on the ping
check. If I put the ping check into maintenance, then they all go into
maintenance.
Looks great! Can't wait to get it!
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"I think it's a new feature.
Don't tell anybody it was an accident."
Larry Wall
-Original Message-
From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:dirk@;woodstone.nu]
Sent: We
Try using the full page name that gets returned, such as /Katalog/default.jsp or
whatever the page name is.
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."
William H. Mauldin
-Original Message
There's no reporting tool for the checks and dependencies right now
other than the built-in HTML reporting in ServersAlive, which can be set
up to show a little info on the check.
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"I think it's a new feature.
Check out the external check samples at
http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/addons.asp for the SMTP2POP3 check, which
basically sends a message via SMTP then checks to make sure it arrived
via POP3. That would address the issue, I bet.
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
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It's actually really easy to do. Set up a web page that returns "ALIVE"
all the time except at whatever time you want to check, and at that time
it should return "EMAIL" (or whatever else you want to say, as long as
it's not "ALIVE").
In pseudocode, it would look like this:
If timenow >= 7:55 AM
. And if
it's running at 8am, SA should send a mail saying that it's running.
(and I suppose that if it's not running at 8am that you want a mail
saying that it's not running?)
dirk.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:salive-owner@;woodstone.nu]On
just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is."
Larry Wall
-Original Message-----
From: Brent G. Ozar
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] scheduled, positive "I'm here" message
Not hard either, believe it or
WHOO! Congratulations, you deserved it.
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"If you can count your money,
you don't have a billion dollars."
J. Paul Getty
-Original Message-
From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
You can use the People feature to set up multiple people. For example,
I use BrentPager and BrentMail, each with their own schedules.
(V4 will take care of this more elegantly.)
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
"No one can possibly achieve
It seems like what we really need is just a special check whenever
anyone comes on schedule. When they come on schedule after being off,
then run a cycle (or make a note of it for the next cycle) and email
them of anything down, regardless of their settings.
That introduces a ton of problems, th
Yeah, queuing is definitely not the answer. I don't want to get 20 old emails at 4am
when my alerting shift starts, and have all of them be the ones from the last guy's
shift.
Brent Ozar - UniFocus
He does the work of three men
Is the service running under the same
account that you’re logged in with?
Meaning, if you’re logged in with your personal account, is the
service using that same account? If it’s
not, stop the service, change it to your account, and then start the service
again, and see if it works. If i
I’d have to go with Dirk on this
one. You’ll see it as a rights
problem because the account SA is using for the check has either had its
password change, or else no longer has permissions on this particular
directory. Happens all the time at our
shop when overzealous admins try to lock do
We do something similar with our in-house programs. (We have racks of
machines that just sit and do OCR processing all day, and it'd be tough
for us to know if they went down. Bear with me, this is actually
relevant, hahaha.)
Every minute, the in-house OCR program running on each machine update
Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with ServersAlive in any way, but I bet I
can answer this, having tried to write some instant-messaging
integration stuff in the past. AOL is not an open protocol in any way,
shape, or form. They actively try to break any program that directly
interfaces with them.
Ah, yes, premature sending, I know it well. Happens to the best of us, especially
when we get this excited. It'll get better as you get older, son.
Brent
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Brent Ozar - UniFocus
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"The towels were so thick the
Awesome! Here's my first bug reports:
On v4-tree-02.jpg, the main screen, the second column in the main window
says "Entry's". The proper spelling is "Entries".
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Brent Ozar - UniFocus
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"You can observe a lot just by watchin'.
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