I monitor more windows services using BBWin or the bb BTF client, specifically I do:
Distributed File System access and replication
NT Backup file sizes and dates as well as checking the backup log and event log for backup errors.
I run dcdiags and netdiags every night and check for errors
I defrag every night and check for errors (Defrag is a good forwarner of problems rather than there be any need to defrag every night).
DHCP is responding and still has free addresses to lease (DNS is done by netdiags above).
Symantec AV
and interface errors on switches and ping times to them and anything else you want to ping (like a printer on the far end of your LAN).
These are all done by VB scripts and the external facility of BB BTF or BBWin.
There is a difference between how BBWin 0.9 and BB BTF client handle the external files created by the scripts and not all these scripts have been updated to work on BBWin. See http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1875682&forum_id=460874 for more info. I don't know if this has been fixed, I haven't found mention in the release notes.
If you promise not to laugh at the coding you can download the scripts for a short while from www.shea.com.au/downloads/BBScripts.zip. feel free to post them on the shire.
As for the original examples you gave I monitor the Exchange, SQL and Sharepoint services as well as their web site response. I haven't expanded on these because as counter intuitive as it seems my Exchange and SQL are non critical services and the chance of me not catching the errors with such simple monitoring is fairly slim. Your Windows admins should be able to script something they will be happy with if you give them the above scripts as examples.
Hope these help
Regards
Graeme
From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2008 3:25 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] BBWIN - beyond the basics
Hi
Is anybody monitoring any Windoze applications with BBWIN and Hobbit?
Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL-Server, etc.
What level of success have you experienced?
What scripts and/or applications are you using to do it?
Regards
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