Author: Doug N
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Monitor IIS Application Pools
We’ve had a number of customers asking how they can monitor their IIS application pools’ status. It turns out there is a handy performance counter that can do that. Note that a value of 3 is ‘Running’. So you just need to create a Performance Monitor to watch the counter for your instance and […]
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PA Server Monitor on Chromebook
A clever customer in Florida sent us a screenshot of the PA Server Monitor Console running on his Chromebook: For anyone that would like to do the same thing, directions are available at: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/forum/pa-server-monitor-console?msg=186135 Thanks Darrell!
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See Real-Time Monitoring Load
Did you know you can double-click the heartbeat chart in the upper-right corner of the Console to see an expanded version of that chart? The expanded version shows the various monitor types and which ones are currently running, which monitor types are behind, etc. As of version 7.4 it’s also possible to see this […]
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GDPR and the UK Data Protection Bill
The GDPR and UK Data Protection Bill have some similar language to the PCI DSS involving keeping track of data and who/what process is accessing data. Specifically, Article 30 indicates data processors “shall maintain a record of all categories of processing activities“. Customers are beginning to turn to PA File Sight for help with this. […]
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SNMP Traps or Syslogs to Desktop Pop-up Messages
Our customers never fail to amaze us. We have recently seen a case where a custom used an SNMP Trap monitor to receive traps from a phone system, and attached the Desktop Notifier action to the monitor. With this simple setup, anytime some specific traps were received, a desktop pop-up alert was shown on one or more […]
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Version 7 Beta
We use the term “Beta” because that is what most people are familiar with, but by the time we go to “Beta”, our products are very solid and have been tested for months already. PA Storage Monitor PA Storage Monitor entered Beta for version 7 today. So we invite you to check out […]
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Blog status check
We monitor this page to make sure the blogging engine, blog database, web server, etc. are all up and running. If we see the word ‘shazam’ we know the page loaded well 🙂
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Installing VSphere Hypervisor (VMWare ESXi 6.5) on an Intel NUC
We test our software a lot, and it helps to have a large network. We don’t have thousands of servers like many customers, but we can simulate a large network which gives us better real-world testing. It’s time to expand our environment again, but we didn’t want to setup another large server for VMs that ultimately […]
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Scholarship Winner!
We are happy to announce a winner for our Power Admin Network Technology Scholarship! Julian Miyata did a great job with his video. You can see it here: Congratulations Julian!
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Monitor (Failed) User Logins in Active Directory
Everyone knows you need to protect against hackers. How do you protect your computers from hackers? One way is to monitor for lots of failed login attempts. But how do you do that? With Windows, you watch the Security Event Log – there are many, many events related to users logging in, failing to […]