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by easy_goer

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Hello -

I have a client that currently designates one of their employees to run through a daily checklist as proactive way to monitor their servers. The client has about 25 server. This checklist incluedes checking all of the Event Viewer logs,processor and memory utilization, disk space, etc. This is an extremely tedious process. It now takes this person an entire day to run down the checklist. The most time consuming part of this is parsing through the Event Viewer, jotting down the errors and then doing the proper research. Just about all of the server are Windows 2000. They also have a handful of Exchange 2000 server and SQL 2000 servers of which are monitored as well with another checklist. My questions is... are there anyrecommended software packages to assist my client with this type of monitoring? Maybe just setting up Windows 2000 alerts will work? SMS?

Thanks you!

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by dont-bother

Hello -
I'd personally recommend a product called LanGuard. You can get it at: http://www.gfi.com/languard/

It monitors ALL the event logs and has 'special settings' to flag important ones. You can also customize WHAT you want to log as well.
It SHOULD tremendously cut-down time required to perform tasks you describe.

LanGuard should cover at least 99% of what you describe. I use WSH scripts (modified examples that come with IIS 5 for the rest of stuff I need).

Hope this helps.

by erikdr

There's many tools, and LANGuard might or might not be amongst the top notch. A few other names:
* Microsoft Operations Manager
* NetIQ AppManager
* Tivoli Monitoring (to be distinguished from its far bigger and heavier enterprise cousin)
* BMC Patrol (entry level pack)
However through VBScript and remote WMI calls it is possible to build a 'free' DYI server management environment which does what you want. On a number of W2K-focused websites you'd find information on this.

MS SMS is not in the list, contrary to MS OM it was designed for desktops and config management definitely not for fault management.

Hope this helps,

- The Netherlands

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