Tag Archive: WhatsUp

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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Jun
30

WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit

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The folks at Ipswitch released their WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit this week. I was in the beta for the past month and find it a pretty handy ‘kit. What I hadn’t realized was that they’d be giving it away for free when launched. Nice! So hey, if you do any network work go get yourself …

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