There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 On Windows Server 2003, Perfmon counters can be logged directly to a SQL database. Let’s do that. Create a database on your SQL Server. We called the database pmon: We’ll create a device for the database with […]
Logging Performance Monitor Counters to SQL Server – Part 1
Logging Performance Monitor Counters to SQL Server – Part 2
There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Use Windows NT authentication: Do not dynamically determine the port. Uncheck and make sure port 1433 is used: Change the default database to pmon: The rest of the defaults are OK: Click finish, and the summary screen […]
Logging Performance Monitor Counters to SQL Server – Part 3
There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Click Test Data Source, and if all is happy, a window showing the results of the ODBC connectivity test will pop up: Another summary of the ODBC connection: Let’s use our perfmon database. In performance monitor, create […]
Logging Performance Monitor Counters to SQL Server – Part 4
There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 After you close out the settings, the counter log should be started. If not, then start it: Add the counters from the database by clicking on the log icon from System Monitor and selecting the database via […]
Lua Monitoring Script
Here is a Lua script we put together that measures the latency of a web host, the time to resolve the host, and the time to retrieve a page: — time to resolve host, time to ping host, time to get host/page print (“\”page name\”,\”host latency ms\”,\”dns resolve ms\”,\”page receive ms\””) — fromCSV from http://www.lua.org/pil/20.4.html […]
Forwarding Rsyslog Logs to Central Server
If you would like to forward your logs to a central syslog server, add something like this to the bottom of rsyslog.conf: $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog # where to place spool files $ActionQueueFileName fwdRuleall # unique name prefix for spool files $ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace 1g # 1gb space limit (use as much as possible) $ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on # save messages […]
LMHOSTS Generator
In the Name Resolution section, we wrote about a technique for forcing the NBT cache to contain entries for critical servers on a network. Even if the WINS server is down or the entries are corrupt, the cached entries will allow name resolution. An LMHOSTS file is needed that contains all of the server names, […]
Installing SNMP on Windows Server 2003 Using Net-SNMP
Installing SNMP on Windows Server 2003 Using Net-SNMP
Configuring SNMPv3 Security On Windows Server 2003
In this article we set up SNMP using the Net-SNMP package. We showed how to set up user security for GNU/Linux on our Centos 4 box in this article. The procedure is a little different for Windows, because the net-snmp-config command is not available. The userid and passphrase need to be in the snmpd.conf file: […]
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