From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Erik Amundson
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Run a command as an Active Monitor in WUP?
I am wondering if it is possible to run a command as an Active Monitor instead of just the few options available in WUP. Currently, when you go to add a new Active Monitor type, it gives you a choice of several types: DNS Monitor, NT Service Monitor, Ping Monitor, SNMP Monitor, TCPIP Monitor, and Telnet Monitor.
Is there any way I can run a command and expect a response (similar to the TCPIP Monitor)?
My real problem is this: I have a few servers running Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB) that I want to monitor with WUP. I can monitor services on them and individually monitor up/down status, but I can't see anywhere the 'convergence' state of the the cluster. Microsoft has (as usual) not put out anything in SNMP that you can monitor NLB with, and their solution is to run the 'WLBS' command locally on the monitoring machine and query the status of the cluster over the network. I would be fine doing this, but WUP doesn't seem like it can execute a command as a monitor...unless I'm missing something...
The real problem here is Microsoft's continuing lack of support for standards-based mechanisms...even when they do impliment a 'standard' mechanism, they butcher it so badly that nothing else that uses the real standard can interoperate with MS...
I know that SNMP Informant (www.snmp-informant.com) is promising future support for monitoring NLB if you pay for the 'APP' version of their software, but I don't feel I should have to pay just to monitor a basic function of my Operating System...
If IPSWITCH does have a way to do this, it would be fantastic, but it would also be another instance of the rest of the IT industry compensating for the inherent stupidity of Microsoft's software.
