Bart Jonkman

I suggest you visit http://wwwmonitortools.com, they have plenty of tools listed. Only professional software, no end-user stuff. I found http://wwwmonitortools.com/cat_web and http://wwwmonitortools.com.cat_enterprise/ quite useful. Regards, Bart.

I suggest you visit http://wwwmonitortools.com/cat_web/, they have plenty of tools listed to verify if your IIS server is patched well. Regards, Bart.

I suggest you visit http://wwwmonitortools.com/cat_app/, they have plenty of tools listed to achieve this. Regards, Bart.

I suggest you visit www/monitortools.com/cat_app/, they have plenty of tools listed to achieve this. Regards, Bart.

Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) is a set of COM (Common Object Model) programming Interfaces. Like ODBC, ADSI provides common access to directories by adding a provider for each directory protocol type. Windows 2000 contains providers for: WinNT, LDAP and Novell NDS. ADSI objects are COM objects, which represent objects in an underlying directory service. Objects can be container objects (like Folders) or Leaf objects (like Files). Each object has a unique ADSI path – a provider name followed by an object path. ADSI provides an abstract schema which describes the type of objects and attributes supported by each provider. Objects are read into cache when GetInfo or GetObject are called. Changes reside in cached memory on the client until a SetInfo is issued. SetInfo writes data back to the underlying directory store. For more information and samples, visit: http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/adsi/

The foundations for Manageability in Windows XP/Windows 2000 and Windows Millennium Edition/Windows 98 are Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI; formerly WBEM) and WMI extensions for Windows Driver Model (WDM). The purpose of WMI is to define a non-proprietary set of environment-independent specifications. These specifications allow management information to be shared between management applications that run in both similar and dissimilar operating system environments. WMI prescribes enterprise management standards and related technologies that work with existing management standards, such as Desktop Management Interface (DMI) and SNMP. WMI complements these other standards by providing a uniform model. This model represents the managed environment through which management data from any source can be accessed in a common way. ActiveXperts Network Monitor provides the ability to build monitor check routines based on WMI. ActiveXperts Software has collected more than hundred WMI samples. You can use these samples as a base for new check routines you can write yourself. Check out http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/wmi/ for more information about WMI or to view samples.

Scripting Windows Management is one of those good ideas that you might not have gotten around to trying yet. Perhaps you're not sure what you could accomplish with a script that you can't accomplish from the graphical interface. VBScript (Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is often dismissed as being "just" a scripting language, the implication being that a scripting language is of little use to a system administrator faced with managing hundreds or even thousands of computers in an enterprise setting. However, when used in combination with technologies such as Windows Script Host (WSH), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), and Active Directory Service Interfaces (ASDI), VBScript becomes a powerful language for system- and network administration purposes. View http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/ for more information about scripting Windows Management.

ActiveXperts Network Monitor is the leading solution for monitoring all aspects of your LAN and WAN servers, workstations and devices. For years, System Administrators, Network Operators and Helpdesk employees have relied upon the power, flexibility and reliability of the ActiveXperts Network Monitor tool. The mission of the product is to maximize the reliability of your production servers and applications through the automatic detection and correction of problems and issues. The product runs as a service on the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 platform. ActiveXperts Network Monitor supports Windows, UNIX, Linux and Novell platforms. When problems are detected, you're immediately notified by network message, e-mail, pager, or SMS message. When a failure is detected, the network monitor tool will try to correct the problem. ActiveXperts Network Monitor is delivered with powerful, pre-defined function sets, including functions for: Active Directory, ADSI, DNS, Disk Drive, Disk Space, DNS, Event Log (with content checking), Exchange 2000, File Existence (with content checking), FTP site, HTTP(s) (with content checking), ICMP/Ping, MS SQL Database, Novell NDS, NTDS (NT4 compatible DS), ODBC Database, Oracle Databases (SQLNet), POP3 Mail server, Printer, Process, Service, SMTP Mail server, TCP port (with handshaking), UDP, UNIX Shell Script (RSH), Users & groups, VBScript (custom scripts) and WMI. VBScript plays a key role in ActiveXperts Network Monitor: operators can write their own monitoring functions and add them to the configuration. The ActiveXpers Network Monitor engine can process up to 32 VBScript functions simultaneously. Results are viewed by the Manager application, which can be installed on any 32 bit Microsoft OS in your network. Different privileges allow helpdesk employees to only view the results, while operators can make modifications to the configuration. ActiveXperts Network Monitor has advanced logging and reporting capabilities. See also http://www.activexperts.com for more information

MonitorTools.com lists a detailed list of network monitoring tools available today. It contains monitoring tools for Windows, UNIX, LINUX and Novell. All monitoring tools are described briefly and links are provided to the corresponding software vendors. Visited by t housands of people a day, mostly system and network administrators, who are looking for their network monitor solution. View different categories: http://www.monitortools.com/cat_networksystem/ for network & System monitors http://www.monitortools.com/cat_enterprise/ for Enterprise Tools; http://www.monitortools.com/cat_protocol/ for Protocol Analyzers & Packet Capture Tools; http://www.monitortools.com/cat_traffic/ forNetwork Traffic and Performance Monitoring http://www.monitortools.com/cat_app/ forApplication Monitoring Tools; http://www.monitortools.com/cat_misc/ for Misc. Tools