Re: monitoring remote applications, how?
From: James D. Marshall (crazy_scotty_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:28:58 GMT
Just up my alley...<insert laugh>
Several ways to accomplish this
Use a system management tool from BMC (Patrol), CA (Unicenter), IBM
(Tivoli), Microsoft (MOM), HP Openview.
These tools are designed to do what you are requesting, with a catch
($$$$$) - add a couple for dollar signs for good measure.
There are some smaller products, one which I have used from DeepMetrix
called ipMonitor only about ($$)
If you haven't caught on this is a lot of what I do, use system management
tools, then write my own stuff to fill in the sometimes gaping holes they
leave.
Now that being said, you can use .NET to monitor processes and Services and
performace counters, you will need to set up a timer function to go out and
re-query the system(s) you are interested in. If the apps are installed as a
service, also monitor the spawned process(s), I have seen services merrily
state they are running just fine, whilst the spawned process dies. This
could be set with email notification, will need access to a POP server.
Also, be careful with putting anything on a network appliance server or
voice response server, they do not tend to play well, due to the OS is a
verliy scaled down (just enough to get it up)
The big catch to any of this is remote accessability to the servers in
question, and will the customer allow you to perform remote monitoring for
your apps, and watch out, they may try to get ou to monitor their stuff also
at cost to you.
"RD" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
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>I have a number of applications written bothe in vb.net and vb6 tat are
> running unattended 24-7 on sveral different machines on a lan at a client
> site.
>
> The problem is that sometimes one of these apps stops working for various
> reasons and it usually takes quite a bit of time for the admins to realize
> it, usually a customer calls in and says hey your app is not working (most
> of these are automated telephony order entry systems, some are automated
> FTP
> transfer apps, etc..)
>
> It would be helpfull if we could implement some way to monitor the state
> of
> these various apps from another computer and if the apps could send a
> warning flag to the centalized server whenever something went awry in
> their
> execution or if the server could detect anomalies in the execution of
> these
> apps.
>
> Any help or suggestions on how this could be done would be most welcome,
> Ideally we would like it best if we did not have to modify qany code in
> the
> apps we're surveiling.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>
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