Server Monitoring
How to Monitor Bandwidth on Servers
A network server’s capacity to handle incoming and outgoing data traffic is its bandwidth. The more of it that is available, the more data a server can transfer at once. To avoid disruption of services it is important to monitor the server’s stream of data, both incoming and outgoing. A healthy flow of traffic through a company’s servers is crucial to maintaining... (More)
Using Windows Uptime to report on Multiple Servers
Introduction Uptime is a great free tool from Microsoft for checking the uptime on Windows systems. You can check your local system or a remote system. When I do server maintenance I need to know how long a server has been running. The uptime command will only check one computer at a time. By using the uptime command in a batch file I can check the uptime on all my servers within... (More)
IP Host Network Monitor
Distributed network and server monitoring software for tracking of performance and availability of mail, db & other servers, web/intranet sites/applications, network equipment via SNMP (UNIX/Linux/Mac) and WMI (Windows), HTTP(S), Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, ODBC, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, PING & more. Custom scripts or programs as monitors, including Nagios plugins. SNMP... (More)
Windows Active Directory
Windows Active Directory Active Directory is a program created by Microsoft Windows in 1996 and was first used with the Windows 2000 Platform. This program is used in order for networked computers to be managed under one structure and directory and store information and data from several domain networks. What It Does? An active directory basically performs a number of essential... (More)
Process Monitor
Process Monitor is a windows monitoring tool that shows real time file system, registry and process activity. This light weight tool combines features of two sysinternal utilities, filemon and regmon. Process Monitor combined these two tools into one and also added even more functionality. Including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such as session... (More)