Monday, June 11, 2007

What should standard monitoring agent monitor on windows platform ?

Windows Event Log Monitoring – Allowing to easily create filters based on event type, source, ID, user, or category, alerted only on events of interest.

Windows Service Monitoring – To Monitor services associated with the services. Able to run scripts on certain service failure conditions.

OS Monitoring – Monitoring performance, resource consumption, and capacity of critical server components such as CPU, memory, cache, disks, and file systems.

Server Monitoring – To Monitor performance, resource consumption, and capacity of critical server components such as CPU, memory, cache, and physical and logical disks.

Hardware Monitoring – Monitoring health of the Hardware using the hardware agent interface.

Log File Monitoring – To monitor any log file for size or content, and set up specific recovery actions.

Process Monitoring – To monitor process availability and resource consumption. Provides the ability to restart failed processes and terminate processes that consume a specified percentage of CPU.

Active Directory Operations Monitoring – Assuring Active Directory health by monitoring critical Active Directory components such as Domain Controller, replication, LDAP, FSMO roles, DNS, and trusts.

Microsoft Cluster Monitoring – To Monitor health and operations of Microsoft Cluster environment.

Performance Monitor – To quickly set up monitoring for any available Windows Performance Counter.

WMI Wizard – To enter WMI queries to monitor various Windows components.
Printer Monitoring – To monitor the operations and availability of the printers in the domain.

Printer Monitoring – To monitor the operations and availability of the printers in the domain.

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