Re: Help Monitoring NT-based services

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Another angle on this matter is that if your MS services log accurate
messages to the 'Event Log', you can have these events sent to a syslog 
server and then use any number of ways of checking for their presence, 
or evaluating their content.

While a number of such products have been mentioned on this list, the
most successful I have seen is the 'Backlog' product from InterSect
Alliance Pty Ltd at http://www.intersectalliance.com/

Their product is 

. Free

. GPLed (mmaybe ..)

. well supported

. supplied as a binary

. works for NT and Win2K (haven't tried the latter).


Here's an example of the log entries it writes

Aug 13 02:52:22 SVGRP8763 svrgrp8763.aipo.gov.au        Application     
12442   Tue Aug 13 02:52:22 2002        6       TimeServ      
        N/A     N/A     Information     SVGRP8763               Time set 
(offset > .5 second)   
Aug 13 12:36:08 SVGRP8763 svrgrp8763.aipo.gov.au        System  683     
Tue Aug 13 12:36:08 2002        3005    Rdr     N/A     N/A   
        Warning SVGRP8763       0000: 00 00 23 00 02 00 6c 00   ......  
0008: 00 00 00 00 bd 0b 00 80   ........  0010: 00 00 00 00 00
 00 00 00   ........  0018: 68 cd 93 82 00 00 00 00   .......  0020: 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........  0028: ff 53 4d 42 a4 02 00 05
   .....  0030: 00 98 01 00 00 00 00 00   ........  0038: 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00   ........  0040: 42 00 fe ca 01 08 00 48   ......  
0048: 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00   ........        The redirector received 
an incorrectly formatted response from 10.0.0.223.   

Aug 13 14:52:35 SVGRP8763 svrgrp8763.aipo.gov.au        Application     
12443   Tue Aug 13 14:52:35 2002        6       TimeServ      
        N/A     N/A     Information     SVGRP8763               Time set 
(offset > .5 second)   

(These are long records that are wrapped awkwardly)

Yours sincerely.


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