Tag Archive: monitoring

Sep
12

IIS: No Monitoring Hits in the Logs

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A few weeks ago I wrote about how I was changing my IIS web server configurations to (hopefully) better manage memory and App Pools. That’s been working out quite satisfactorily. Yesterday I realized the changes I made can give another nice side effect. I was preparing to start some maintenance yesterday morning and I wanted …

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Sep
08

Fun With WhatsUp and PsService.exe

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This is probably a bit obscure but writing it up will surely help someone — if not myself next time around… I use WhatsUp Gold to monitor the machines at work. Been using it for years and it has worked great for us. Recently I hit a little challenge though. Needed to monitor the event …

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Aug
24

Oh, Did You Want a Timeout?

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Back in February I mentioned that I was reconfiguring my IIS 6 web servers to shutdown the App Pools after 2 hours of inactivity. That seemed a much better option than the brute force iisreset that I’d been scheduling as a nightly event. Turns out I wasn’t quite done yet. Here’s a snip of a …

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Mar
03

Sending WatchGuard logs to Syslog

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I manage a handful of WatchGuard Firebox Edge series firewalls at work. I’m generally pretty happy with them and have found that they do just what I need done. Lately I’ve been wrestling with some provider issues and have been trying to get some better data on sporadic network outages. That caused me to look …

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