RE: [SA-list] URL Check

2007-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
rking. Do they need an HTTP GET or do they need an HTTP POST? If it's a POST what parameters should you pass? Dirk Bulinckx. From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:01 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List S

RE: [SA-list] Exchange monitoring

2007-10-18 Thread Kurt Buff
Double plus good. > -Original Message- > From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Michael Shook > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:50 > To: Servers Alive Discussion List > Subject: RE: [SA-list] Exchange monitoring > > > Ok, I've some response from my

RE: [SA-list] URL Check

2007-10-18 Thread Kurt Buff
Possibly http://curl.haxx.se/ (http://curl.haxx.se/)? There are Win32 ports available. -Original Message- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ahmed Hassan Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 07:15 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] URL Ch

RE: [SA-list] OT: Linux/BSD question(s)

2007-04-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Putty, especially the pscp component, should be your friend. -Original Message- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:45 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] OT: Linux/BSD question(s) A

RE: [SA-list] Wan Connection

2007-01-25 Thread Kurt Buff
If you've got a Linux/FreeBSD box, you should have a look at smokeping. If you've got SNMP read access to the router at your end, MRTG or Cacti can help as well, and MRTG does run under Windows. -Original Message- From: "Rick Fogarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:30:24

RE: [SA-list] OT: Syslog questions

2006-10-30 Thread Kurt Buff
One other piece of advice - check out www.loganalysis.org. It's not been updated a lot, but it's still useful. While you're there, you should think about subscribing to the list they run there. It's fairly low volume, but the folks on it (tbird, Marcus Ranum, Anton Chuvakin, and others) are very go

RE: [SA-list] OT: Syslog questions

2006-10-30 Thread Kurt Buff
I confirm this, heartily. Having a syslog implementation with the paid version (it's CHEAP!) of Kiwi syslog, and using the IntersectAlliance Snare client for forwarding eventlog messages is a lifesaver, and when you couple that with the Snare IIS client for your internal web site logs and have your

RE: [SA-list] OT: SA in VM?

2006-10-11 Thread Kurt Buff
Title: RE: [SA-list] OT: SA in VM? I am unaware of any, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist. It's something I've noted ever since 1987     -Original Message-From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Yi, Ung Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 200

RE: [SA-list] OT: SA in VM?

2006-10-10 Thread Kurt Buff
The CPU utilization spikes you're seeing are probably because of stupidity in the MSFT network stack or in some related part of the OS. When Windows waits for stuff from the network, it frequently spikes CPU, even though nothing is really going on. It's been a source of frustration for many people

RE: [SA-list] Exchange & Mail Lists

2006-06-20 Thread Kurt Buff
Tom, I realize that you might not have control over this policy, so this isn't actually directed at you personally. HOWEVER! This is one of my pet peeves. OOO replies to the Internet are counterproductive *and* dangerous. If you're running a business and using Exchange, IMNSHO the way to work wi

RE: [SA-list] List changes

2006-05-25 Thread Kurt Buff
Wow. The following are silly people, and should be beat with sticks: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - you didn't usubscribe, or something equally silly The following have silly autoresponders that don't know not to reply to listservs: Joshua Hanford Rob Morgan Peter Hoermann Klaus Wilms Chris Mertens Joseph

RE: [SA-list] List changes

2006-05-25 Thread Kurt Buff
| Normaly the OUT-OF-THE-OFFICE replies should be send to the | REPLY-TO/SENDER | address while for some reason some mail servers are sending | it to the FROM. | This is something we can't control. | So if you're sending mail to the list and get one or more | out-of-the-office | replies, then

RE: [SA-list] List changes

2006-05-25 Thread Kurt Buff
| Normaly the OUT-OF-THE-OFFICE replies should be send to the | REPLY-TO/SENDER | address while for some reason some mail servers are sending | it to the FROM. | This is something we can't control. | So if you're sending mail to the list and get one or more | out-of-the-office | replies, then

[SA-list] RE: [SA-list] Remote Reboot over IP

2006-04-17 Thread Kurt Buff
I haven't used them, but I have seen them in use - there are PDUs (Power Distribution Units - intelligent power strips, basically) that have a telnet and/or an http interface for the individual outlets. Issue the appropriate command, and the power goes out to the outlet for approximately 10 seconds

RE: ***PROBABLE SPAM*** Re: [SA-list] SA list working OK?

2005-08-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Second that motion: On this very email, SpamAssassin says: Received: from woodstone.nu (unknown [208.251.220.6]) 0.1 FORGED_RCVD_HELO Received: contains a forged HELO 2.8 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [

RE: [SA-list] Smtp2POP3 check

2005-07-22 Thread Kurt Buff
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 14:15 > To: salive@woodstone.nu > Subject: RE: [SA-list] Smtp2POP3 check > > > Gmail's SMTP server supports it too :-) and that's already > setup for me...

RE: [SA-list] Smtp2POP3 check

2005-07-22 Thread Kurt Buff
If you have a spare machine, you can load up FreeBSD and get Postfix from the ports tree - it'll ask about TLS during the configure stage and get the modules you need. I use such a box (without TLS, though) as a gateway to my Exchange box, and am using it to filter spam and malware as well. > -

RE: [SA-list] External Eventlog check

2005-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
End = Most Recent Entry, or Least Recent Entry? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Dirk BulinckxSent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:50To: salive@woodstone.nuSubject: RE: [SA-list] External Eventlog check It keeps one per entry wit

RE: [SA-list] Environmental monitoring

2005-02-08 Thread Kurt Buff
Dirk said... > I would like to know what kind of environmental sensors you're using. > And if you're using them together with Servers Alive (and if > so what check > type are you using for them) > > Dirk. Uptime Devices SH2, not checking with SA, though I probably should, because it's not as con

RE: [SA-list] DHCP Errors

2005-01-21 Thread Kurt Buff
Nope. There is from the Microsoft Server Resource Kit a tool that checks for DHCP servers on a subnet. It should be scriptable, and is called DHCPLoc.exe Kurt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tobie Fysh Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 06:35 T

RE: [SA-list] Remote command as alert

2004-11-23 Thread Kurt Buff
Wouldn't necessarily require an agent. See http://sysinternals.com for their psexec utility. All you need is admin rights on the remote box. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Alistair Francis > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 03:58 > T

RE: [SA-list] WOL (Wake-up On LAN) alert

2004-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
t is > usefull or not. WOL would be that SA is able to send a magic > packet (that > wakes a system up) to a pc. (only big issue will be that you > need to know > the MAC address of the system I think) > > > > Dirk. > > -----Original Message- > From: [EMA

RE: [SA-list] WOL (Wake-up On LAN) alert

2004-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
> Is a WOL alert usefull? > > Dirk. Err Can you describe what you mean? Do you mean that you wish to send a WOL magic packet to some machine(s), or something else? I think it might be pretty darn cool for some purposes, but most of the machines on my network don't have WOL enabled.

RE: [SA-list] Bandwidth

2004-09-22 Thread Kurt Buff
PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [SA-list] Bandwidth > > > > Isn't this something (the monitoring/graphing) that RRD can > > do too? And SA can then integrate with RRD. In v4 only for > > roundtrip times, in v5 for the tests results too. &g

RE: [SA-list] Bandwidth

2004-09-22 Thread Kurt Buff
If you take a closer look at MRTG, it *can* alert, but that certainly isn't its primary purpose in life. In addition, you'll need some scripting/programming skills that are definitely beyond me at the moment to make it go. That said, MRTG is a very cool tool, if you need to monitor SNMP-capable de

RE: [SA-list] General Request

2004-06-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Do a google for Andrew Baker's web site, and search for the delold.bat file.   His site is a wonderful resource for many things... -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ahmed HassanSent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 00:14To: SaliveSubjec

RE: [SA-list] Checking User Logons

2004-01-26 Thread Kurt Buff
You could parse the output of nbtstat to find that out. If you do a findstr under Win2k, and don't find the string you're looking for, it returns an errorlevel of 1. -Original Message- From: Tobie Fysh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 05:20 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

RE: [SA-list] SMTP2POP3 Com check...

2004-01-09 Thread Kurt Buff
riday, January 09, 2004 10:00 |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [SA-list] SMTP2POP3 Com check... | | |What do you mean with your first question? | | |Dirk. | |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf |Of Kurt Buff |Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 6:38 P

RE: [SA-list] SMTP2POP3 Com check...

2004-01-09 Thread Kurt Buff
Question: Is SMTP2POP3 able to work around the addition to the subject line? Further question: Would it make sense to replicate the subject as the body of the message - that would be *much* less likely to be messed with by stupid ISP automatic spam checkers. |-Original Message- |From: Jas

RE: [SA-list] Feature Requests

2003-07-25 Thread Kurt Buff
Title: Message Script it. -Original Message-From: Richard Temple [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 03:47To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [SA-list] Feature Requests That is a good point, but being a overworked and underpaid admin I like to have the application do

RE: [SA-list] Execute command one a remote machine???

2003-07-09 Thread Kurt Buff
Far better to use the free PSEXEC.EXE tool, which you can get from http://www.sysinternals.com. This tool, and all of the other of their collection (PSTOOLS.ZIP, which contains pslist, pskill, etc.), are nearly indispensible for a network or system admin. The problem with RCMD is that service on

RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive and Event Log Monitoring for Windows NT\2000\XP

2003-03-13 Thread Kurt Buff
to kiwi? Mark Bradshaw Salem Web Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9401 Courthouse Road, Suite 300 Chesterfield, VA 23832 804.768.9404 x100 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:29 PM > To: &#

RE: [SA-list] Servers Alive and Event Log Monitoring for Windows NT\2000\XP

2003-03-13 Thread Kurt Buff
Try the combination of SNARE (www.intersectalliance.com - free), MySQL (www.mysql.com - free in the version that you'll probably want) and Kiwi Syslog (www.kiwisyslog.com - free and pay, but get the pay version, it's really worth it, because you'll want to use MySQL with it.) I'm finding this an e

RE: [SA-list] Any idea on final Release?

2003-02-05 Thread Kurt Buff
Sigh. Never mind. I'm stupid today, and can't read the whole message the first time through. -Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:52 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Any idea on final Release? What about a direct up

RE: [SA-list] Any idea on final Release?

2003-02-05 Thread Kurt Buff
What about a direct upgrade from 3.x to v4 Enterprise? It's the ODBC logging that I'm interested in. -Original Message- From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] Any idea on final Release? For thos

RE: [SA-list] CountFiles 1.0.0.9?

2002-12-17 Thread Kurt Buff
;t see them. dirk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Tue Dec 17 5:22 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] CountFiles 1.0.0.9? Dirk, How accurate is Countfiles? I've set up SA to alert when mor

RE: [SA-list] CountFiles 1.0.0.9?

2002-12-17 Thread Kurt Buff
iginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Fri Dec 13 10:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Help with an addin Dirk, Thanks for the response. Tried your suggestion, without success. Also tried with my own

RE: [SA-list] Help with an addin

2002-12-16 Thread Kurt Buff
andline you're using? dirk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Sat Dec 14 12:05 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Help with an addin Ha! Did that, and here's what I got: Friday,

RE: [SA-list] Help with an addin

2002-12-13 Thread Kurt Buff
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Fri Dec 13 10:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Help with an addin Dirk, Thanks for the response. Tried your suggestion, without success. Also tried with my own credentials in th

RE: [SA-list] Help with an addin

2002-12-13 Thread Kurt Buff
ddin If the E drive points to the drive on the remote system then try Path=\\zet-avante-01\e$\avante9\flodata\live\live.data\FOI.OUTBOX\ dirk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Fri Dec 13 9:16 PM To: '[EMAI

[SA-list] Help with an addin

2002-12-13 Thread Kurt Buff
ried it with the supplied parameter and without, and have tried deleting the Directory= entry from the .ini entirely - no joy. Thoughts? Kurt Buff Sr. Network Administrator Zetron, Inc. 425.820.6363 x463 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 97004 Redmond, WA 98073 To unsubscribe from a list, send

RE: [SA-list] Multiple checks

2002-11-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Your best bet is to create an IPSec tunnel, and query over that. -Original Message- From: Jack Lyons [mailto:jack.lyons@;martinagency.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:58 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Multiple checks That monitors SQLServer. I have a business c