Questions tagged [health]
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Smell of rotten eggs in the server room
A week ago I got the following error on my APC Smart-UPS 1000 which I muted.
Warning State:
Connect battery
Load: 55%
Batt: 100%
Today, I could smell a sort of sulfur/sulphur/rotten egg smell when I came into the office and the UPS is alarming…
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Andy Joiner
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Monitoring XFS filesystem health in Linux
I recently experienced a filesystem meltdown. I had a server running for about 180 days non stop without any issues, but then I noticed weird stuff happen and apparently the ext3 filesystem was in really bad shape. I had the drives and the memory…
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zidar
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Server health monitoring software
Hey all! I am looking for some software to monitor the health status of our servers. Our environment is a pretty typical mix of HP/Dell running Microsoft Server and VMware vSphere. We are currently using WhatsUPGold and would like to migrate away…
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Chadddada
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Wireless health risks: any proof of it being a threat? Do you take it into account?
The Internet is full of "Tin foil hat" kind of people who would not dare to use a wireless setup, but as the amount of wireless networks grows, I am interested in good and objective case studies and the general attitude towards the subject.
Does…
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Aron Rotteveel
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HP Proliant Servers - WMI query for system health
I want to query lots of HP servers to determine their overall health. I don't want to use any packages, or even SNMP - I want to query the server health from WMI and understand if a box is Green/Amber/Red - just like the HP Management Home…
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Mike McClelland
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VMwre ESXi 5 - Hardware Health Status shows "Unknown"
I have a Cisco UCSC-C220-M3SBE server that runs ESXi 5.0.0 to run 2 VMs for Cisco CUCM and Cisco Unity.
It is a standalone host, no vcenter.
If I go into the Configuration tab, then Health Status I get the following:
I've tried Refresh and nothing…
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TheCleaner
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Azure Active Directory Sync Health - "Latest data is not available"
Anyone uing AD Connect Sync Health in a non-Express setup yet?
I have a the Sync Health agent installed, and connected to AAD, but am getting an error - in the Sync Error applet it shows "Latest data is not available". AD Connect itself seems fine,…
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Justin Gillfeather
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What Logs / Process Stats to monitor on a Ubuntu FTP server?
I am administering a server with Ubuntu Server which is running pureFTP.
So far all is well, but I would like to know what I should be monitoring so that I can spot any potential stability and security issues. I'm not looking for sophisticated…
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Adam Salkin
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Lightweight monitoring for a Windows XP laptop
I have a windows XP laptop in a remote location. I would like to have an overview for CPU/Memory statistics from a remote location. Monitoring a specific service (a Tomcat instance) would be nice but not essential.
I have seen the monitoring…
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kazanaki
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HP Proliant ML350 G6 SMH reporting error with Smart Array
Our HP Proliant ML350 G6 recently turned off by itself for the first time, with the "Health LED" indicating degraded state.
As soon as I pressed the power button, the LED went back to green, so after OS restart, I opened the System Management…
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Groo
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How do I use AWS Elastic Beanstalk Enhanced Health monitoring with a long polling app?
With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, I have an app setup with enhanced health monitoring. However, the app uses long polling so that it can sync between a mobile app and the web app. The long poll is a 60 second timeout, and this causes enhanced health to…
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Matt H
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System health monitoring of unmanaged server using WMI / SNMP
I need to monitor the health of a couple unmanaged servers (specifically Dell SC1425), preferably using WMI or SNMP. They are running Windows Server 2003 SP1.
Ideally I am looking for a single diagnostic signal that I can monitor.
I understand that…
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zelanix
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Where is documentation of HP ProLiant Health Panel?
This is a capture of one of our HP ProLiant ML370 G5 health panel (not sure about official name of the panel):
Why are all memory banks LED all on? Is it caused by a faulty memory bank?
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Arie K
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Easy methods of constantly monitoring health of many servers?
I'm running several web proxy servers running on CentOS, and I'm looking for a simple way of constantly monitoring the health of the servers (how quickly they respond to web requests, how quickly web pages load, etc.)
I was thinking of possibly…
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Lin
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Require a simple "system health" check script for Debian
I want a simple cron job for Debian which could check for basic things like disk full or high load.
I believe there is already made solutions, so I can save my time and not write my own script.
Any suggestions are welcome.
UPD: I will stick to monit…
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Max Tsepkov
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