Questions[health](server)

Anyone uing AD Connect Sync Health in a non-Express setup yet?

I have a the Sync Health agent installed, and connected to AAD, but am getting an error - in the Sync Error applet it shows "Latest data is not available". AD Connect itself seems fine, my objects are syncing aok.

Interestingly, the DC at the on-premise end shows no Event Log entries in the Microsoft Azure AD Sync/Debug and Sync/Operational logs - not only no errors, no entries at all. Maybe its an issue at the on-premise end?

Any suggestions welcomed, Justin

I am administering a server with Ubuntu Server which is running pureFTP.
So far all is well, but I would like to know what I should be monitoring so that I can spot any potential stability and security issues. I'm not looking for sophisticated software, more an idea of what logs and process statistics are most useful for checking on the health of the system.

I'm thinking that I can look at various parameters output from the "ps" command and compare to see if I have things like memory leaks. But I would like to know what experienced admins do.

Also, how do I do a disk check so that when I reboot, I don't get a message saying something like "disk not checked for x days, forcing check" which delays the reboot? I assume there is command that I can run as a cron job late at night. How often should it be run?

What things should I be looking at to spot intrusion attempts? The only shell access is SSH on a non-standard port through UFW firewall, and I regularly do a grep on auth.log for "Fail" or "Invalid". Is there anything else I should look at?

I was logging the firewall (UFW) but I have very few open ports (FTP and SSH on a non standard port) so looking at lists of IP's that have been blocked did not seem useful.

I have a windows XP laptop in a remote location. I would like to have an overview for CPU/Memory statistics from a remote location. Monitoring a specific service (a Tomcat instance) would be nice but not essential.

I have seen the monitoring solutions (Nagios, cacti e.t.c) and they are all very heavy. I do not want to install mysql, web server and other stuff like that on the laptop.

I don't even need a web solution at all. It could just be a simple command line app with a server port and on my machine another GUI application would connect there (and not a web browser)

Is there something like this available?

Answer:

Perfmon is perfect for my needs

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305610 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.08.pulse.aspx?pr=blog

I want to query lots of HP servers to determine their overall health. I don't want to use any packages, or even SNMP - I want to query the server health from WMI and understand if a box is Green/Amber/Red - just like the HP Management Home Page.

This MUST be possible - but I can't find any documentation...

Oh yes, and the servers are running Windows Server 2003/8.

Help!!

Mike

The Internet is full of "Tin foil hat" kind of people who would not dare to use a wireless setup, but as the amount of wireless networks grows, I am interested in good and objective case studies and the general attitude towards the subject.

Does your company take the possible health risks into account or is generally not being seen as a threat at all?

If you have links to good case studies or resources on this matter, please include them in your answer or add them to the aggrate list below.

Resources and relevant reads:

• World Health Organization report: Electromagnetic fields and public health