eejit Posted September 22, 2005 Posted September 22, 2005 I recently installed a trial of Small Business Server 2003. One thing I liked about it was that it emails you a daily and weekly summary of how the server is getting on (if any services are not running, how much space is being used up on each drive, etc.) and when certain events happen, like if the server reboots, etc. Is there a way to get regular Windows 2003 servers to do this? I know that SBS2003 comes with Exchange, but I didn't configure that, so I guess it used IIS and 'some other stuff'. Any idea how I can do this? Cheers.
ajbritton Posted September 22, 2005 Posted September 22, 2005 There's Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), but it's probably expensive!
eejit Posted September 23, 2005 Author Posted September 23, 2005 Cheers for the response AJ, I'm not sure what MOM does, but I'm sure that the technologies used by SBS to email are already in 2003 somewhere. Apart from Exchange and ISA2000, I don't think there are actually any new pieces of software in SBS, it just configures it all nice and easily for you.
russdev Posted September 23, 2005 Posted September 23, 2005 i have been looking into this and and at some point righting something to do simlair kind of thing mainly combine reports into one central place, server monitoring... when i have done it will post info here... russ
eejit Posted September 23, 2005 Author Posted September 23, 2005 Nice one Russ, Cheers. Server 2003 comes with SMTP, I believe, which means I could probably use that if I had any idea how to configure it. :-)
Geoff Posted September 23, 2005 Posted September 23, 2005 Is there a way to get regular Windows 2003 servers to do this? I know that SBS2003 comes with Exchange, but I didn't configure that, so I guess it used IIS and 'some other stuff'. Any idea how I can do this? Nagios can do this.
russdev Posted September 23, 2005 Posted September 23, 2005 must admit this why i was going but with some custom stuff on our servers mainly to deal with certain unique apps. Russ
Geoff Posted September 23, 2005 Posted September 23, 2005 there's plugins to query WMI, event logs and flat text log files. Chances are you can cobble something together with the existings tools for nagios.
russdev Posted September 23, 2005 Posted September 23, 2005 that is hope i think there maybe one thing that might need to look into but then got to egt linux installed first and as being awkard about it... Russ
Geoff Posted September 23, 2005 Posted September 23, 2005 Ask in the Linux forum if your having problems with installing Linux.
intrigue Posted September 23, 2005 Posted September 23, 2005 looks good just had a look at http://www.nagios.org/ too and that looks awesome .matt
russdev Posted September 23, 2005 Posted September 23, 2005 Ask in the Linux forum if your having problems with installing Linux. will do just not had chance to look at in depth yet.. russ
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