Re: [lopsa-discuss] Standard list of what to monitor on the network.

2009-10-14 Thread Joseph Kern
If you use RAID on any of your Windows servers, I would suggest monitoring the "Disk Idle Time" counter. Some RAID configurations can give misleading stats, the write-cache can make it seem like its writing much faster than it actually is. If you are using a NAT'ing router, also look to see if you

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Standard list of what to monitor on the network.

2009-10-13 Thread Doug Hughes
Rob Cherry wrote: > I am in a situation of starting a site from scratch and thus have no > historical helpful configurations to build from. I have just finished > implementing a monitoring solution and now I need to tell it what I > care about. There is obvious stuff like availability and resp

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Standard list of what to monitor on the network.

2009-10-13 Thread david
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Stefan wrote: An infrastructure (servers, storage, desktops/workstations/laptops, network, etc.) is worth nothing in itself, if not providing proper application response time or QoE. I have since decided to take apart (identify all components making ~) all critical business

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Standard list of what to monitor on the network.

2009-10-13 Thread Stefan
An infrastructure (servers, storage, desktops/workstations/laptops, network, etc.) is worth nothing in itself, if not providing proper application response time or QoE. I have since decided to take apart (identify all components making ~) all critical business apps and then decide what and how to m

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Standard list of what to monitor on the network.

2009-10-13 Thread Atom Powers
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Rob Cherry wrote: > I am in a situation of starting a site from scratch and thus have no > historical helpful configurations to build from.  I have just finished > implementing a monitoring solution and now I need to tell it what I care > about.  There is obvious s