Re: troubleshooting tools - IIS Crash/Hang agent

From: M. M. Rafferty (mmr_at_vistagrande.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:41:16 -0800

Hi WenJun,

Yes, I understand that I need to supply a script specified by the trigger if
I want it to do something such as email the adminstrator a notice of a hang.
No problem with that aspect.

My questions are
    1. Will is leave IIS running in the case of a hang situation?
(Experiments on my test box look like this is true -- IIS continues after
the log information is created -- which is what I need.)
    2. Will activating this ISAPI filter would have a noticable/significant
impact on performance? (This is for a shared hosting situation with many
virtual servers on a box.) 

--
Mary M. Rafferty
mailto:mmr@vistagrande.com
""WenJun Zhang[MSFT]"" <v-wzhang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:yZEpci2$DHA.4044@cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl...
> Hi Mary,
>
> The IIS Crash/Hang Agent is actaully an IIS global ISAPI filter which
> can be used to realtime monitor IIS server's status. It doesn't
> include any built-in functionality such as: sending email to
> administrator when the server crashes. However, it supports a command
> line trigger to run any commands when the server is crashed(or hang).
>  e.g: send email to administrator with a vbscript file.
>
> To use, please download the installation package from the link below:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=01c4f89d-cc68
> -42ba-98d2-0c580437efcf&displaylang=en
>
> Note:
> Install this package and if you meet any command line error messages,
> just ignore them.
> In a '-' prompt, type 'quit' to exit debug.exe.
> If it asks you restart W3SVC, type 'Y'.
>
> On IIS5, right-click the server(computer icon) and open
> properties->WWW service->ISAPI filters. You should see the Crash/Hang
> agent filter has been deployed properly with top priority.
> On IIS6, right-click the 'Web Sites' folder to find the setting.
>
> All the settings are in the \IISDebugTools\IISCHAgent.ini file. By
> default, it only contains:
>
> [CrashAgent]
> Enable=1
> ;LogLocation=%SystemDrive%\iisdebugtools\logs
> ;MaxLogFiles=10
> ;PreActionCommand=
>
> Remove ';' to ask it perfrom a PreActionCommand.
>
> The .vbs sample to send mails can be found at:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=286431
> Use: cscript cdosmtp.vbs in a batch file and set it to be triggered
> by PreActionCommand=
>
> This should achieve the 'crash auto-send mail' scenario.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> WenJun Zhang
> Microsoft Online Support
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
>

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