Posts Tagged ‘Monitoring’

Integrating Opalis with System Center Essentials

In my last article, I talked briefly about Opalis and its ability to automate monitoring tasks.  Opalis can also work hand in hand with SCE (System Center Essentials), taking advantage of the wide array of built in alerting and monitoring of SCE and combining it with the easy-to-understand workflow and automation that Opalis offers.  Opalis [...]

Monitoring Tools for SysAdmin’s

The following tools will definitely help you in managing the server. The below descriptions are taken from the man page. All the packages are available from epel repository. 1. Top The  top  program  provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system.  It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks [...]

Create a custom monitor to detect specific Windows Events in System Center Essentials 2010

SCE(System Center Essentials) 2010 provides a great collection of monitors from the first time you use it.  Monitors in SCE look at the performance and availibility of your servers along with other things; if there seems to be a problem, a monitor raises an alert which can be seen in the SCE management console.  SCE takes that [...]

Open Source Enterprise Monitoring – Nagios

In an enterprise environment with a large amount of computers, monitoring becomes critical. If a critical server goes down, administrators need a way to be notified in order to take action as quickly as possible. There are many proprietary products that provide monitoring such as IPSwitch’s What’s Up Gold or Microsoft’s System Center Operation Manager [...]

Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Testing Exchange Connectivity

Troubleshooting mailflow in and out of an Exchange environment can be very simple if some simple preparations are made prior to any potential issues.