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Monitoring a Microsoft Failover cluster
Prerequisites Kaseya Network Monitor v4.1, build 7394 or later Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 Cluster Description This Lua script monitor will monitor a Microsoft Failover clusterm checking for the status of nodes and shared resources. If either a node or a resource is not online, the monitor will set an alarm. The…
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Failed executing agent procedure MONSET$########$####### - How do I tell what this script is?
KB#: KKB000862 QUESTION: Failed executing agent procedure MONSET$########$####### - How do I tell what this script is? ANSWER: There is an error in the log similar to the following: machineName.Department.OrgName failed executing agentprocedure "MONSET$362253383894653$61771424" on 2011-11-01 11:05:09ZScript Summary: Failed…
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Monitoring RDP Sessions
Prerequisites Kaseya Network Monitor v4.1, build 7394 or later Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services / 2008 Remote Desktop Services Description These Lua script monitors will monitor a Microsoft RDP enabled server för session processes. The threshold can be set for CPU or memory usage. There are two versions of…
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Linux/Unix monitors fail to authenticate
QUESTION Linux/Unix monitors fails to authenticate ANSWER All Linux/Unix monitors establish an SSH session to the monitored host. Currently KNM can only authenticate with that SSH server using a username/password. Therefore the SSH server must have Password authentication enabled. Make sure that PasswordAuthentication is…
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Init.cfg Parameters
QUESTION What is Init.cfg used for and what are valid parameters? ANSWER The init.cfg file is used by KNM for settings that are needed before the database with the configuration is loaded. It controls which port KNM starts the web server on and in which mode KNM starts in (Standard, Distributed server or Distributed…
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Windows performance monitoring
Question: How does KNM monitor Windows performance metrics? Answer: KNM have two means of monitoring Windows performance metrics * Windows performance registry (Winperf) * Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) 1. Windows performance register The Windows performance register is a virtual registry hive that contains…
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How to configure the Oracle Instant Client for KNM
For KNM to be able to monitor an Oracle database, the minimum requirements are that the Oracle Instant Client for Microsoft Windows (32-bit) is installed and configured properly on the KNM host or gateway that will be monitoring the Oracle database. The 32-bit client needs to be installed even if the OS on the KNM…
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Monitoring AhsayOBS user quotas
Prerequisites Kaseya Network Monitor v4.x AhsayOBS AhsayOBS needs to be configured for the KNM host/gateway to use the API, by default only localhost has access. Please refer to the the AhsayOBS manual (guide_obs_admin.pdf, section 24.3) on how to change the scope of IP addresses that can connect using the API. Description…
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Howto: Enable SSH on VMware ESX/ESXi 5.0 to be used with KNM
In Kaseya Network Monitor, we have multiple ways of monitoring VMware platforms. The most recent additions are the specific monitors "VMware performance monitor" and "CIM monitor". These monitors are great for monitoring the health state of various hardware instances on your VMware ESX/ESXi hosts. Some counters are not…
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Deploying a MySQL monitor
QUESTION Deploying a MySQL monitor ANSWER You will need to install the 'MySQL Administrator' client access package on the Kaseya Network Monitor (KNM) host machine. This package can be found on MySQL's homepage. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/ After installation you will need to make sure that the file path to…