On 31/01/2019 18:29, Root, Paul T wrote:
Hi,
Recently, I inherited some Windows machines. Including a pair of Domain controllers.
I’m wonderingwhat are somethings I’m going to want to monitor to make sure these things keep running?
I have the Powershell client installed no problem.
I see DNS and DHCP services, and am adding those.
Not quite answering your question, but: rather than testing those on the client, you could also consider a server-side test - e.g. a good way to check on a DNS server is to send a DNS query and check the response. You can do that just by adding the "dns" flag in hosts.cfg
http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html#lbAP
Or to test a DHCP server, send a DHCP request to it - here's a script that uses the dhcping (sic) tool to do that:
https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:dhcp
A functioning DC ought to respond to ldap queries, so...
http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html#lbAS
Adam