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Troubleshooting application performance is one of the most common tasks that network administrators and sys admins do on a daily basis. Many of today’s applications are web based which can complicate troubleshooting as the application itself may be on a network that you don’t control and that is distant to your users.…
You have no control over when you may experience downtime. If you’re thinking, ‘what’s an hour of downtime going to cost?’ You may want to re-think that. What you thought was an hour of downtime can cost your organization millions (if you’re a large organization). Organizations whose businesses are driven through online…
One of the most common questions I get asked when I'm teaching a class is what's the difference between "management" and "monitoring". This is especially true in the systems and application management space as the terms are in many cases used interchangeably even though the difference is broader than in the network…
I've been tasked with creating some application monitors for our "critical" client apps such as Citrix, Email, and SharePoint. I've looked over the many templates and done a bunch of searches but there seem to be several ways to go about monitoring such as WMI counters, Windows services or forms login. I've run into some…
SSH login written in Korn (ksh) to return status of a single process. Replace "icicycle2.p" int the template to get the grep'd process with what you are actually looking for. The return will be a 0 if it sees the process and a 1 if it doesn't. I've set the critical to be equal to 1 and warning the same. BE VERY CAREFUL…
Hi, I have 300-400 websites that I would like to watch with SAM, using the http content template. I would need to customize the search string for each site, and then run the test on all of the load balanced servers that host the sites. The http content template works fine, but I am dreading the need to create and apply a…
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