Freddy,
I would imagine an app such as MOM or Appman could meet
most of these reqs.
As one activeDir poster says tho, you can only choose 2
from the following 3 options: cheap, secure and fast. [I would add "robust" to
that list and offer 2 from 4!]
I would add that 'you get what you pay for' and would
personally always expect to pay a premium for a serious monitoring solution,
since it is of paramount importance to most orgs.
neil
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Freddy HARTONO
Sent: 05 January 2006 13:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: DC & Server monitoring tools
Hi Neil
Just standard system availability checks and alerting,
simple sms or email would do.
Monitor things like
1) Availability - ping test (packet
latency) etc, port availability, ldap binding tests (how long it takes to makes
ldap object query)
2) Eventlog - eventlog searches and
triggers (no need for consolidation - such as what Intrust is
doing)
3) Reporting - monthly or management type
of reporting or trending, say disk space utilization over the past few months
trends
4) Performance counters - perfmon
counters to monitor other things such as Exchange queue length
etc
5) Email Round trip test - sends smtp
mails or mapi mails to a destination, opens it with pop3 or mapi and check if
emails receives within x amount of minutes.
Things like that, am using Argent currently (cost a bomb) -
was evaluating SiteScope (quite user friendly) but the pricing model of per
points monitoring may be a disadvantage...
Thank you and have a splendid day!
Kind Regards,
Freddy Hartono
Group Support
Engineer
InternationalSOS Pte Ltd
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: (+65)
6330-9785
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: DC & Server monitoring tools
What do you mean by "monitoring"?
I normally split this into several sub
categories:
1. System
2. Security and Vulnerability
3. Audit and Compliance
4. Archival
A few suggestions below:
MOM (MS) [cat1]; App Manager [cat1], Vulnerability
Manager [cat2] and Security Manager [cat2] (NetIQ); Intrust
[cat 3&4] and Reporter [cat3] (Quest); SecurityManager [cat 2&3]
(NetPro)
neil
___________________________
Neil Ruston
Global Technology
Infrastructure
Nomura
International plc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Freddy HARTONO
Sent: 05 January 2006 02:55
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Way OT: DC & Server monitoring tools
Hi all
Just looking for some advice on server monitoring tools, and for DC monitoring as well as exchange monitoring
I'm currently using Argent but found it much of a hassle to setup and the predefined rules out of the box is very standard and is much more expensive than others as well.
Tried installing MOM but the gui isnt easy (havent have time to play around much)...
Any suggestions or experience on good monitoring products - preferred agentless..
Thank you and have a splendid day!
Kind Regards,
Freddy Hartono
Group Support Engineer
InternationalSOS Pte Ltd
mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone:
(+65) 6330-9785
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