Microsoft, Dell, http://tek-tips.com/
Plus several gaming forumes, but I doubt that's what you had in mind.
:-)
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Hey all,
I would like to use SA to query Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 via SNMP.
Can someone point me to documentation of what OIDs are available, what
they measure, etc.?
Thanks.
David
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Our VPNs are hardware-to-hardware and are always on. I do not need SA
to be able to establish the connection. I do use a "sanity check" ping
across the VPN as a parent check for all the SA checks made across VPN.
This ping must work for any subsequent checks to be executed by SA.
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Disclaimer: I use none of the database checkers in SA and have no idea
what they do.
At the risk of getting 1000 "that's not a database" emails, allow me to
request Microsoft Exchange.
First, it is a database. Second, I'd wager that a large share of SA
users have to support Exchange. Third, it'
Dell server monitoring
advice
Could you share some of those values with us, or point us to a specific
resource which lists them?
I use MOM 2005, and that is one of the things I want to monitor. But MOM
2005 seems like an overkill
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Steve,
I make no claim that this is "the best way of monitoring my Dell
enterprise servers for hardware failures", but here is what I do.
OPenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) cannot send emails itself. There
is a Dell OpenManage app called IT Assistant (ITA) that serves as a
management consol
That's a great idea! I had not thought of that.
Another idea:
I keep an eye on Servers Alive by using another machine running a free 10 check
copy of SA. On this copy, I have installed the file-date-time-modified check
and I check to make sure that the html file created by my primary SA
insta
ter the OID you want to
check.
Dirk Bulinckx.
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From: David Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 11:15 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: [SA-list] Using SA and SNMP with Dell Servers
Hello,
I have been using Servers Alive to monitor
or IP) of the system you
want
to check.
On the 2nd tab, select SNMP as check type and enter the OID you want to
check.
Dirk Bulinckx.
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Hello,
I have been using Servers Alive to monitor my windows servers for a
while, and it is great at monitoring software. I want to try and
monitor the state of hardware in my Dell Servers using Servers Alive as
the "monitoring station."
I have installed and configured SNMP on the both the monit
)
Mike Thommes
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Hello,
Can someone recommend a decent, basic command line email
supplement my use of Servers Alive.
I apologize if this is too far off topic for this list. Please contact
me off list about this if you want.
Thanks.
David Webster
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There are specific Windows event entries recorded for startup and
shutdown.
There is an add-on that can monitor the windows event log. Perhaps it
could be employed to accomplish this. I do not use the add-on software,
but there are people on this list who do. Perhaps one of them has a
suggestio
Do you mean to limit resources used by Servers Alive?
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Subject: [SA-list] OT: Question
Just doing some "research" :-)
Would
Is there a features/changes/enhancement list for version 6?
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First of all a happy ne
onitor (free external com check available
from http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/addons.asp)
Dirk.
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Dirk.
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Subject: [SA-list] Information store size
Does anyone know if there is a (Windows) perform
Does anyone know if there is a (Windows) performance counter that
measures the size of an Exchange 2003 Information Store? I looked, but
did not see one. Thanks.
---David
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Sent: 03 September 2005 19:01
To: salive@woodstone.nu
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive Polling speed
Use multiple copies of Servers Alive to move as many checks as possible onto
local network segments.
"Aler
Use multiple copies of Servers Alive to move as many checks as possible
onto local network segments.
"Alert Globally, Check locally."--David
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Why not just ping some device on the other side of the VPN?
We ping the Wan interface of the router, Wan interface of the firewall,
and then LAN interface of the Firewall. The first ping tells us if the
router is up, the second if the firewall is up, and the final ping
(which is only possible if
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When I do that I get an email that says No list salive=20 (or Null List
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Hello,
I have been running the SMTP2POP3 for about a week in a test
environment. (limited to ten checks, v5.0.1675) I have two checks. The
first does the SMTP and the second does the POP3. The checks run fine
for a while and then I get a down on both. The downs are false. Here
is the log:
Tue
There is a file date and time check add on module for SA that is in
beta. It is made by Michael Smith who is on this list. It can be used
to check if a file's modification date/time is "in N last minutes", or
"file dated today". Could you possibly use that to monitor whether the
file(s) in quest
Me 3.
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I like the thought.
Dirk.
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Chris,
I run a "local" copy of SA on almost every network I monitor. I have
half a dozen copies with 30-90 checks each. I can't imagine NOT running
multiple copies, because A)The software is cheap B)If the number of
checks is reasonable, then it does not require a dedicated server, and
you can
I hope that cleared things up for you Corey. I bet you didn't know that one of
the rules of this list is that answers are posted in a different language from
the question.
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Server db logon SA
query, would be nice to have and be a better SA check than what I
currently employ.
If it doesn't return against the query, then it's dead, Jim. The beauty
is that an LDAP query should work for more than just Exchange.
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Dirk,
All of our customers and all of our monitored systems (a subset) are
Exchange. Mostly 2003 with a few 2000. We migrated the last 5.5 system
a few months ago. Not quite sure if/how we would use a MAPI check. We
use MAPI and POP in very few environments. Those protocols are not even
enabl
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Contact information for Michael
Smith please?
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Time
Michael Smith is the person who wrote the extern
vers Alive Service
Thanks for that - that's much clearer.
Cheers
Richard.
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Sent: 13 April 2005 13:31
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive Service
I think of the service
I think of the service as the program that does the actual checking and
the application (also called the GUI) as a tool for creating/editing the
configuration of checks, alerts etc. used by the service. With the
service stopped, run the application and setup your checks and alerts.
If you do check
or you could just upgrade to Exchange Enterprise
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] Exchange Standard Edition db size limit
If you write your own external check for it,
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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:24 AM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] SA Service Unexpectedly Terminating - RDP & the
console
Thanks.
I use "Remote Desktops" which is part of the Windows Server 2
that come with 2003, maybe the XP one works, I'm not
sure. Then I guess you could disconnect kvm for a little more physical
security?
//Steve
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I recently corrected a similar issue on two Win2003 servers. The fix
was to set the SA service to run as system* with desktop interaction.
All of this has to be done on the machine, not a terminal services
session, and then the service needs to be started while sitting at the
machine. Then I lock
I agree that a second copy is a way to speed things up, but I don't agree with
lowering the cost. I use multiple copies to distribute the load, and to keep
the check traffic segmented and off my WAN links as much as possible.
Frankly, if an organization is big enough that it needs to do 100s or
t: RE: [SA-list] Major product checks missing?
Personaly I have the feeling that this is not something SA should do.
But hey I can be wrong :-)
Dirk.
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fs=20040804.034
> LastDefs=20040803.008
>
> If one wanted to code a bit, one could cobble together a scheduled
task
> that extracts the second line to a new file, then runs the
FileFirstLine
> com check against it.
>
>
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Yes.
For example, I monitor is Perfmon (MSExchangeIS,VM Largest Block Size,)
on my exchange servers and I use a 32MB threshold. SA alerts me when
the perfmon counter dips below that value and if it goes back above it.
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is something we can and want to do.
>
>
>
> Dirk.
>
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How about the ability to query the state of anti virus products
(Symantec)? I'd like to be able to check that AV software running on
server X is running definitions version Y dated Z. Yes, I know that
there is some combination of add-on products and scripts that would do
this for me, but that's n
SA admins,
Is anyone using SA v4.1.1609 to monitor Exchange Server 2003?
Specifically, I am monitoring the counter VM Largest Block Size, under
the Performance Object MS ExchangeIS. The check was working fine (for
weeks), then started returning this:
Perfmon (MSExchangeIS,VM Largest Block Size,)
Folks,
Does anybody have an experience/recommendations on the following?
When running SA as a service, if you do not supply specific credentials
on an individual check, then Servers Alive will perform the check using
the credentials of the service. Is it better (meaning more reliable) to
have ch
Bob-
First I would say check all the TCP/IP stuff on the target XP box and
the source box. If nothing can reach it then either a) nothing is
leaving the source box, b)nothing is finding (routing or subnet issue)
the target box or c)things are finding their way to the target box, but
are being blo
Not sure if v5 is any different (I doubt it) but in V4.1 when you
install SA it installs the service but does not start it. Per the PDF
manual page 9:
Servers Alive can be run as a service if the computer for installation
is
running Windows NT, 2000, XP, or 2003. The Setup process detects your
op
Still on latest release of v4 with no immediate plans to got to v5. I
do not have a strong need for the new features in v5 and the copies I
currently have in production are running well.
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As someone already pointed out, DHCP is a broadcast. Routers do not by nature
forward broadcast traffic. A $50 (or less) Linksys (or other brand) broadband
router sitting between the test network and your production network would do
the trick. Checking for rude behavior on the part of the tes
SA newbies love it too!
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Subject: [SA-list] Thanks to Dirk
Sometimes I think we all should step back and realize the incredible
s
about java script?
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Subject: [SA-list] Who watches the watchers, and how?
Hello,
I am running SA v4.1.1609 on a server running windows server 2003. I
have the software running as a service, performing 3 dozen checks or so
Thanks. I'll check it out.
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Subject: Re: [SA-list] Who watches the watchers, and how?
At 03:42 PM 1/5/2005 -0500, you wrote:
Hello,
I am running SA v4.1.1609 on a server running windows server 2003. I
have the software running as a service, performing 3 dozen checks or so,
a mix of pings, windows services, etc. Each check outputs to the
default web page which is then rendered using a template. Checks are
done every t
k.
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Subject: [SA-list] Next Check Time in HTML output
Hello,
Apologizes if this has been covered. A search of the Archive did
Hello,
Apologizes if this has been covered. A search of the Archive did not
return the answer.
I have Servers Alive (SA) running and the checks are outputting to the
default HTML page using an HTML template. At the top of the SA
generated page is included the time that the checks were run, e.g
Thanks to everyone for their posts. You have given me more than enough
to get started.
--David
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Hello,
First props to SA, it's creator, and all the SA users who keep the ideas
flowing. I use SA to monitor many things on WIN2K, WIN2K+3 boxes and
it's great.
I apologize if this question has already been answered. I searched the
list archives for antivirus, virus, Symantec and did not find a
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