System monitoring checklist

[TekinaLtd]

Hi Folks,

Is anyone using the daily/weekly/monthly system monitoring checklist to keep the MES (Syncade) system healthy? This will be a proactive approach to monitor the system parameters where automatic alert/monitoring is not possible.

[AgentSmith]

On the application servers:

I would monitor CPU, Memory, & Disk Utilization, and Fragmentation levels. Keep track for expiring certificates, monitor Syncade Services including the hasp service for a running status, monitor the SC Consumer queues, Windows Event Logs, monitor the IIS services to ensure they stay running, write a tool that checks the asp and mvc sites for a 200 response status, write a tool that monitors that actively tests the webservices and COM+ objects to ensure they are all there and functioning, monitor for uptime, & dropped packets.

On the database servers:

Monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Ensure the maintenance is properly setup & emailing. monitor for deadlocks, ETL jobs failures, and monitor the database growth. Make sure things are being closed and archiving as expected. Maybe monitor the SQL queues to ensure they are active and working properly.


Not sure what your organization has but you could write some custom goodies in PowerShell or VBScript and execute via task scheduler if need be.