Introducing the Nagios Discovery Tool for Windows…

by Andy Grogan March 25, 2012

Back in February I delivered a preview of a new tool that I had been working on called the “Nagios Discovery Tool for Windows” – or the NDT for short. Since then I have been trying to get a manual for the tool together, but as is the way of my life it has been [...]

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Getting notified of Active Directory Group Membership…

by Andy Grogan March 4, 2012

Ok, whilst this is not a Exchange focussed post, I am hoping that it will help some folks out there. I have over the years been in charge of some quite large Active Directory environments, which naturally have a number of Administrators – some of which are based in many locations and sometimes in different [...]

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Configuring e-Mail Notifications in Nagios Core…

by Andy Grogan February 24, 2012

Linked to my multi part series on using Nagios Core with Exchange server, I would like to explain how you can configure mail notifications to recipients when status changes occur within the Nagios monitoring environment. If you are just joining us here, I recommend that you have a look at the series in its entirety [...]

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Video Preview of the Nagios Discovery Tool…

by Andy Grogan February 24, 2012

Recently I have been doing quite a bit of work with Nagios Core, which if you have not seen the article series you are most welcome to have a look at them below: In Part 1 I covered how you can install Nagios Core 3.3.1 onto an existing Ubuntu 11.10 server within your environment In [...]

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Quick Tip – Running Exchange Based PowerShell script files from the command line or a batch file…

by Andy Grogan February 19, 2012

I have been asked this quite a bit over the years, and indeed in most of my articles where I provide PS based scripts I tend to re-iterate the process for running or scheduling them. So rather than continue to cover the process over and over again, I thought that I would put together a [...]

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Installing & Using the Microsoft PST Capture Tool–Part 2…

by Andy Grogan February 14, 2012

In the previous part of this series I explained what the Microsoft PST Capture tool was, described a little bit about its architecture and components, and then took you through how you can install the tool onto a server within your environment. In this part I would like to explain how you can install the [...]

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Installing & Using the Microsoft PST Capture Tool–Part 1…

by Andy Grogan February 13, 2012

The PST Capture Tool was released on the 30th Jan 2012 (see: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/01/30/pst-time-to-walk-the-plank.aspx for more information) after a fairly long and highly anticipated wait by the Exchange Community. In essence the PST Capture tool has two main tiers of operation: PST Capture Central Service The PST Capture Central Service maintains the knowledge of the PST [...]

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February 2012 Newsletter now available…

by Andy Grogan February 13, 2012

Just a quick post to let you know that the February edition of the www.telnetport25.com newsletter is available for viewing here. Happy reading!

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telnetMESMS–SMS Wrapper for Exchange Monitoring–Part 2…

by Andy Grogan February 5, 2012

In the last part of this series I covered my new tool – telnetMESMS which allows for SMS messages to be sent via the command line to destination mobile phones. The tool makes use of a SMS web enabled API provided by http://www.intellisoftware.co.uk (sign up information is contained in part 1). In this part I [...]

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telnetMESMS–SMS Wrapper for Exchange Monitoring–Part 1…

by Andy Grogan February 4, 2012

Some of you will be aware that I have recently been working on a series which takes a look at Monitoring Exchange Server using Nagios Core. Whilst doing so, I started to think about administrative notifications and the different types of channel that can be used to get key information across to you in a [...]

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