If you want something that's cheap but will monitor services check out Big Brother for NT. It's very cheap, free for personal/noncommercial use, and works fairly well.
http://bb4.com/ Kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Kevin Flanagan C/S Planning Engineer III I/T Implementation Department Branch Banking & Trust Company 3261 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 116 MC: 172-85-01-00 Raleigh, NC 27604 Voice: 919-716-6209 -----Original Message----- From: Pham, Tuan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:36 AM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: NT services Andrew, I'm planning to rebuilt all of the servers, the former employee installed all servers as Domain Controller(total of 12) Duh...., on some of them he used U-Promote software. And yes! I'm having all kind of problems with these boxes, they're tend to lock-up quite often, and because they're all server diff. apps, it'll take sometime to rebuit them. Right now I have a cheap and simple monitoring software(Windows Service Monitor) to keep track of these servers when they lock-up before the users even notice. We use to have a software that goes out and ping these servers, but as you know most servers are pingable even when froze. Therefore, I wanted to monitor all these services. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:26 AM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: NT services Do you routinely have problems with the Server service? - ASB -----Original Message----- From: Pham, Tuan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:16 AM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: NT services I pretty much know what to monitor as far as applications, for example: all Exchange services; IIS; SQL;... But I was just curious about NT default services also, such as Server; Workstation; Net Logon; Spooler things like that need to monitor as well. The bottom line is, I want the system to page and email me when one of the service stop or lockup at any point of time. -----Original Message----- From: Flanagan, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:02 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: NT services First things first, operate on the KISS principle, Keep It Simple Stupid. Don't install services or parts of applications if you aren't using them. For example: I'm fighting with some folks here in the business unit about what parts of IIS to install. They want a default install, I want to leave off FTP and Admin web site if they don't use them. The less stuff you put on a server the more supportable/stable it'll be. That means that you look at the server as a whole for monitoring purposes, some services are more likely to fail, others are an indicator that something is amiss on the machine, it really depends on what you have on the system. Kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Kevin Flanagan C/S Planning Engineer III I/T Implementation Department Branch Banking & Trust Company 3261 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 116 MC: 172-85-01-00 Raleigh, NC 27604 Voice: 919-716-6209 -----Original Message----- From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:45 AM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: NT services Wouldn't that depend on what the server is for? If it's my exchange box you'd better believe I'm monitoring the exchange services ... -----Original Message----- From: Pham, Tuan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:26 AM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: NT services Question: I want to run a Service Monitor software on all servers, my question is which would be the most likely NT services that can cause server lockup, so I make the list to monitor? I know like Server; Net Logon... Any idea? Thanks! ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
