We set all of our dependencies on the PING. That way you only have place one check into maintenance mode to disable all of the checks for the server.
Jim Ferrell EDS - Allison Transmission Mail Stop M-12A 4700 W 10th St Indianapolis, IN 46222 * phone: +01-317-242-0034 (8-252) * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pager: 317-302-2581 -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] OT - Suggestions For What To Monitor Don't forget to set the dependencies correctly. Example for a webserver (running on NT) ping webserver nt service w3svc (IIS service) winsock port 80 url check (HTML page) url check (ASP page) dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Ockenden Sent: Thu Dec 05 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SA-list] OT - Suggestions For What To Monitor > I guess I'm just looking for a basic core set of things that most Server Administrators like > to monitor. For a Web server, one of the most important things is to monitor your Web site from somewhere OFF SITE, rather than from the Web server machine itself. So that you are monitoring the site exactly as a customer sees it. I'd have a simple ping rule to check the outbound connectivity from the monitoring site, and if that checks then do pings and page checks on various pages on the Web site. If you use asp/php/whatever, then one important thing is to check your key pages to see whether they contain the word "error" - that way you'll pick up script/database errors, as well as server/connectivity problems. I would be REALLY nice if SA would checksum whole pages or marked regions of pages, and alert you if the checksum alters - that way it could be used for hacker/ break-in detection. A few months ago Dirk said that this would be in the next version, so I've held off writing about SA in PC Pro magazine until V4 comes out (for those of you on this mailing list who keep nagging me to review it --- you know who you are!!!!) P. To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
