RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Utilities needed

[Puckett, Richard]

Title: Message

John,

 

Not sure if you're interested in this, but if the hosts support the use of WMI, you can do some fairly small (and cool) things with WMI, EventSinks and the Event Log, or with private EventFilters, Consumers (SMTPEventConsumer) & FilterToConsumerBinding.  These will allow you to create alerts (and e-mails) based on criteria you define for monitoring your service/process (to include service CreationDates, state changes, etc.)  You can also choose to use EventSinks to monitor the System event log for the creation of 7023 (service terminations).  MS recently released their WMI script repository help file that has quite a few useful snippets in it (see the second link below).

 

MS Script Center

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/scriptcenter/compmgmt/default.asp

 

MS WMI System Administration Script repository

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=38942

 

 

Here's an example:

 

Monitor Changes in Service Status

Description
Temporary event consumer that issues an alert any time a service changes status (for example, an active service that is paused or stopped).

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colServices = objWMIService. _
    ExecNotificationQuery("Select * from __instancemodificationevent " _
        & "within 30 where TargetInstance isa 'Win32_Service'")
i = 0
Do While i = 0
    Set objService = colServices.NextEvent
    If objService.TargetInstance.State <> _
        objService.PreviousInstance.State Then
        Wscript.Echo objService.TargetInstance.Name _
            &  " is " & objService.TargetInstance.State _
                & ". The service previously was " & objService.PreviousInstance.State & "."
    End If
Loop

 

Regards,

Richard

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hicks/MIS/HQ/KEMET/US [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Utilities needed

Cool, thanks for the info, I will give that a try

"Thornley, Dave H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/20/2002 10:30 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Utilities needed

You should be able to monitor the Elapsed time and CPU use of any process - Elapsed time isn't pretty (seconds it's been running for) but may do the job...
 
They're both under the Process counter
 
dave
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hicks/MIS/HQ/KEMET/US [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 September 2002 13:52
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Utilities needed


I did not think that I could use perfmon to monitor services. How would you use it to monitor service uptime?

Thanks

"Rick Kingslan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/19/2002 09:09 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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John,
 
Though a completely MS solution and not 100% foolproof (though it's worked very well for my needs) setting up a simple perfmon with high and low watermarks with the proper alerting could work here.

Rick Kingslan - Microsoft Certified Trainer
MCSE+I on Windows NT 4.0
MCSE on Windows 2000
MVP [Windows NT/2000 Server]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."
---  Arthur C. Clarke

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:27 PM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Utilities needed


I have been having problems with our Lotus Notes administrators making claims of services not running and using extremely high cpu. Of course I am never able to see the problem happening because they will kill the service. Sorry had to vent. I am looking for a utility that I can monitor the uptime of a service and monitor cpu usage of a service. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks