I have configured a JON server 3.1.0 and agents allowing to monitor JBoss AS.
I've set alerts to tell us when the process goes down and I now would like to export reports, especially with the availability/unavailability periods of the different processes.
It seems that the predefined reports concern more the utilization of the CPU/memory, but not the availability.
The purpose would be to export this report at the end of every month with the unavailability periods over the past month.
Is this possible? Does this exist by default? If yes, how can I access to this? If not, is there a way to get it?
Thanks for you support
JON 3.1.0 should contain the REST-api as tech preview though (not sure). If this is in, you can use this to access the availability history e.g. via a http
GET localhost:7080/rest/resource/{id}/availability/history
with {id} being the id of the resource you need the report for.
Another option is the CLI, where you can write the output of the cli commands to a file.
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My team has attempted to utilize a 3rd party Active Directory Object auditing tool which ran some automated scripts and turned on active directory auditing on our domain controllers. We use Win 2016 Server for our domain controllers.
As a result our DCs got bogged down and we subsequently turned off the auditing. My boss doesn't want to risk having this happen again so I am attempting to find a less invasive way to monitor changes to groups, user accounts and group policy. For security reasons, we want to be able to ask the question: Who changed what and at what date and time.
My options as I see them are basically some kind of custom .NET library or solution, accessing LDAP via PHP or perhaps a polling solution using PowerShell to dump data to a secondary file, API or service.
I've scoured the internet for a solution that might work for us and spent several days experimenting and building prototypes to no avail. It seems that the expectation for all possible solutions are to turn on the auditing features and simply hope that your DCs don't immediately max out on resources.
If we were to deploy a test DC and turn on auditing for evaluation purposes, I could potentially come up with a solution to track changes over time but we wouldn't be able to assess the real world impact of certain auditing features being turned on because it wouldn't have the same traffic that our production Domain Controllers have.
The solution that I am looking for has a low impact on the performance of our domain controllers and offers a method by which to store data pertaining to active directory object changes that can be subsequently displayed on one or more reports.
me again..
I had done all the sensu-uchiwa-graphite set up. And i get a new request,:(. Rather than go to change the threshold in check.json file on sensu server..any plugin at the UCHIWA that this adjustment will be shown in Uchiwa dashboard? I asked because in case that my application teams wanna change it by themselves without accessing to server.
I think sensu-admin in enterprise is available but we need to pay big money per year ;(...
Thanks in advance to help.
Sumana W.
This is fairly doable if you use a configuration management system like Chef/Ansible/Puppet - especially if you run standalone checks on the sensu-client.
This allows the clients to define their own thresholds, rather than changing the sensu servers themselves.
See https://sensuapp.org/docs/latest/reference/checks.html#standalone-checks
In this case, the definitions for the checks are sitting on the client servers and they have the choice of their thresholds or configurations. The client itself manages how often to run the check and sends the output back to the server, rather than the server requesting the checks. This helps quite a bit as far as scaling or multitenancy.
The other way to accomplish this, if you are tied to serverside checks, would be to use client attributes (https://sensuapp.org/docs/0.25/reference/checks.html#check-token-substitution)
For example, you can have a cpu check that says something like check-cpu.sh -w :::cpu_warn::: -c :::cpu_critical::: and these come from a cpu_warn and cpu_critical value from the client.json on the client server.
Source: We use sensu extensively in an enterprise environment across thousands of hosts and have been working through these same issues.
Using Fiddler, I want to send multiple requests in one hit, to check the response time from the server, if too many requests are sent at one time. Basically, I want to perform a, kind of, load testing on my service. Is there any way to perform this action? I want to repeat the process of hitting the server, again and again.
In Fiddler, you can repeat a request as many times as you like by hitting SHIFT+R on the selected Web Session. You'll be prompted for a repeat count and then Fiddler will issue the specified number of requests.
Caveat: Having said that, generally speaking, you'd want to use a tool like Telerik Test Studio's Load Test tool for a task like this. Alternatively, you could use Fiddler's Export architecture to generate a script for VS WebTest or Microsoft's free WCAT tool and use those tools to generate the load. You can then run these scripts on multiple machines from multiple networks and generate a more-realistic set of load than you could by simply running on a single client.
I've been load testing with StresStimulus today. Overall, I'm quite impressed.
It's now a standalone application (it used to be a fiddler extension). There's a 7 day free trial which allows up to 50 virtual users. Also, the setup wizard is great for beginners.
For basic load testing the trial should be fine. Consider upgrading for extensive/professional use.
Is there a way under Citrix for my application to make a call to the Citrix host to find out how many copies of my application are presently running? We want to limit this in our license and we need to have a way to verify it in the code.
thanks - dave
No, Citrix XenApp (which is their best-known product and probably the one you are asking about) does not offer any APIs or services that can be used for application license checking.
The closest you could get via Citrix is to use the Powershell SDK and call Get-XASessionProcess to get a process list. The problem with this approach is you need to be a Citrix admin, and it's a fairly round about way of doing this.
If I wanted to implemented a simple concurrent limit for license enforcement I would look at two options:
Implement a simple web-service somewhere that my app talks to, to get a license.
Create a simple Windows service that tracks processes to maintain a count of concurrent instances of your app. When the configured license count is exceeded you could set a flag in a shared memory section in the global namespace. Then in your app you check this flag at startup and exit immediately when it is set.
You could track processes using WMI, e.g.
http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2006/02/11/438006.aspx
I want to write a workflow application that routes a link to a document. The routing is based upon machines not users because I don't know who will ever be at a given post. For example, I have a form. It is initially filled out in location A. I now want it to go to location B and have them fill out the rest. Finally, it goes to location C where a supervisor will approve it.
None of these locations has a known user. That is I don't know who it will be. I only know that whomever it is is authorized (they are assigned to the workstation and are approved to be there.)
Will Microsoft Windows Workflow do this or do I need to build my own workflow based on SQL Server, IP Addresses, and so forth?
Also, How would the user at a workstation be notified a document had been sent to their machine?
Thanks for any help.
I think if I was approaching this problem workflow would work to do it. It is a state machine you want that has three states:
A Start
B Completing
C Approving
However workflow needs to work in one central place (trust me on this, you only want to have one workflow run time running at once, otherwise the same bit of work can be done multiple times see our questions on MSDN forum). So a central server running the workflow is the answer.
How you present this to the users can be done in multiple ways. Dave suggested using an ASP.NET site to identify the machines that are doing the work, which is probably how I would do it. However you could also write a windows forms client that would do the same thing. This would require using something like SOAP / WCF to facilitate communication between client form applications and the central workflow service. This would have the advantage that you could use a system try icon to alert the user.
You might also want to look at human workflow engines, as they are designed to do things such as this (and more), I'm most familiar with PNMsoft's Sequence
You can design a generic "routing" workflow that will cause data to go to a workstation. The easiest way to do this would be to embed the workflow in an ASP.NET application. Each workstation should visit the application with a workstation ID in the querystring:
http://myapp/default.aspx?wid=01
When the form is filled out at workstation A, the workflow running in the web app can enter it into the "work bin" of the next workstation. Anyone sitting at the computer for which the form is destined will see it appear in their list of forms to review. You can use AJAX to make it slick and auto-updating.