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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I monitor more windows services using BBWin or the bb BTF client,
specifically I do:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> Distributed File System access and replication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>NT Backup file sizes and dates as well as checking the backup
log and event log for backup errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I run dcdiags and netdiags every night and check for errors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I defrag every night and check for errors (Defrag is a good
forwarner of problems rather than there be any need to defrag every night).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>DHCP is responding and still has free addresses to lease (DNS is
done by netdiags above).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Symantec AV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>and interface errors on switches and ping times to them and anything
else you want to ping (like a printer on the far end of your LAN).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>These are all done by VB scripts and the external facility of BB
BTF or BBWin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>There is a difference between how BBWin 0.9 and BB BTF client handle
the external files created by the scripts and not all these scripts have been
updated to work on BBWin. See <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1875682&forum_id=460874">http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1875682&forum_id=460874</a>
for more info. I don’t know if this has been fixed, I haven’t found
mention in the release notes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If you promise not to laugh at the coding you can download the
scripts for a short while from <a
href="http://www.shea.com.au/downloads/BBScripts.zip">www.shea.com.au/downloads/BBScripts.zip</a>.
feel free to post them on the shire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>As for the original examples you gave I monitor the Exchange,
SQL and Sharepoint services as well as their web site response. I haven’t
expanded on these because as counter intuitive as it seems my Exchange and SQL
are non critical services and the chance of me not catching the errors with
such simple monitoring is fairly slim. Your Windows admins should be able
to script something they will be happy with if you give them the above scripts
as examples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hope these help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Graeme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Everett, Vernon
[mailto:Vernon.Everett@woodside.com.au] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 18 March 2008 3:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [hobbit] BBWIN - beyond the basics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Is anybody monitoring any Windoze applications with BBWIN and
Hobbit?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL-Server, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>What level of success have you experienced?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>What scripts and/or applications are you using to do it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'> Vernon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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