SA is very good at operational alerts, and I’ve run it across many lifetimes in my IT career.
Logging and reporting changes is a different matter though. Take a look at the Virtual Machine Change Reporting tools from Netwrix (www.netwrix.com (http://www.netwrix.com)) – sends a daily virtual machine inventory and configuration report. We run several of their tools to report on changes to Group Policy, Changes within AD and changes within Exchange. Very nice suite for “who changed what, and when?”. Want to know if something is up and running? I’ll always recommend ServersAlive. When you look at the feature/price ration, nothing beats it. Change tracking? Netwrix has some good stuff. -Tom From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hanson, Brett Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 7:00 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] new check type request We have a situation where the team that provisions and maintains our virtual servers will decide to change the number of processors, disk space, or RAM without informing us. I’ve been working on a script to retrieve these parameters so I can check for them using Servers Alive, but it would be better if Servers Alive could perform these checks natively (and using stored credentials). What is the possibility of such checks being made? I could see this a potentially made more generic as a WMI check. Thank you, Brett Hanson Systems Analyst Agrium Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTICE ! This E-Mail transmission and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or action taken in reliance on the contents of this E-Mail by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited and is not intended to, in anyway, waive privilege or confidentiality. If you have received this E-Mail in error please immediately delete it and notify sender at the above E-Mail address. Agrium uses state of the art anti-virus technology on all incoming and outgoing E-Mail. We encourage and promote the use of safe E-Mail management practices and recommend you check this, and all other E-Mail and attachments you receive for the presence of viruses. The sender and Agrium accept no liability for any damage caused by a virus or otherwise by the transmittal of this E-Mail. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list.
