Articles based around monitoring your Exchange infrastructure.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script performs the following functions: Retrieves the Databases that are running on the monitored server Checks to see if they are mounted If no databases are resident on the server (in DAG configurations) the script returns the following information string to the […]
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script is designed to Monitor the Replication Status of each database within a DAG Configuration. The script can return one of 2 error codes which are as follow: 0: OK 2: CRITICAL Download [ GetDAGReplicationStatus.ps1 – 1 KB ] Usage Please refer […]
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script is designed to return the name of the DAG which the host server is a member of. The script only returns the following status code: 0: OK However the return description into the Nagios Interface will either be: Name of the […]
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script is designed to monitor the status of the Content Index for each mailbox DAG database within your environment – the script has two exit statuses: 0: OK 2: Critical Critical is flagged when one or more Content Indexes are in a […]
Script Description Powershell based NSClient++ monitoring script for use with Nagios Core. This script is designed to monitor the “LastFullBackup” attribute of the host Mailbox Server – the script has two exit statuses: 0: OK 2: CRITICAL Critical (2) is flagged when one or more databases hosted on the monitored server has a “lastFullBackup” of […]
Ok, I have to admit that this series has been a lot of fun (well for me anyway ~ I have had a blast) – but this part is perhaps by far and away the most fun that I have personally had – as it means that I have needed to develop some sample Powershell […]
Welcome to part 3 of my series which is based around how you can use Nagios to monitor both Windows and Exchange Servers. In the previous two posts (Part 1 is located here and Part 2 is located here) – I covered the following: Part 1 Setting up Nagios on Ubuntu Part 2 Setting up […]
In the first part of this series I covered how you can get a working instance of Nagios Core on a Ubuntu VMWare server within your environment. What I would like to cover in this part is how you can begin to perform some basic monitoring on a Windows Server within your infrastructure using the […]
[ NOTE: ] This part has been updated to reflect some suggestions from readers of the site. Sections that have changed are: Installing Nagios Core – added the sed commands before the “Make” process, this fixes an issue with the Make file which prevents the Nagios home page from being displayed, as well as some […]
