NetCrunch provides a predefined dedicated monitoring pack for Microsoft IIS: Tools->Alerting & Reporting->Settings->Microsoft->IIS.
You can check the list of predefined alerts and reports, add nodes and modify rules of this pack in the Monitoring Pack Settings window.
MS SQL Server with NetCrunch can be monitored in several ways:
Setting up an alert for the HTTP network service
It must be added to the monitored list for the node with running IIS. Then you can setup an alert for this network service, e.g. when its state changes to DOWN UP, it is responding slowly and/or too many packets are lost. To do this select either the Network Service State Event or the Network Service Availability Threshold class during event definition.
Setting up an alert for a Windows service related to this Web server
During actual event definition, select the Windows Service State Event class and select such Windows service as IIS Admin Service. You can choose to generate an alert if this service is stopped, paused or run for any reason so that notification or another type of preventive action is taken.
Setting up an alert using the Windows Application Performance Threshold class
Any number of counter objects related to IIS can be setup (i.e. actual specific counters for each need to be chosen).
IIS Counter Objects
- Active Server Pages
- Counters related to ASP scripts and applications running on the server.
- FTP Service
- Counters specific to the FTP service.
- HTTP Indexing Service
- Counters related to the Indexing Service for Web sites, active queries and caching results.
- Indexing Service
- Counters for Indexing Service that relate to indexing processes, work lists and queries.
- Indexing Service Filter
- Counters supply additional performance information related to content filters and indexing speed related to filters.
- Internet Information Services Global
- Counters that, give additional performance information related to object applied jointly to the HTTP and FTP services.
- NNTP Commands
- Counters specific to NNTP commands that users are executing on the server.
- NNTP Server
- Counters used to track overall NNTP performance, such as the number of articles sent, received, and posted per second.
- SMTP NTFS Store Driver
- Counters used for tracking the total number of messages and message streams.
- SMTP Server
- Counters that track overall SMTP performance, such as the number of messages sent and received per second.
- Web Service
- Counters related to the World Wide Web Publishing Service.
