Agentless Monitoring

This page contains solutions for managing nodes without agents or applications on remote servers.  

The Agentless Monitoring Tools

Package Name Description
SCMPingNodeGroup.zip Command Line tool to ping remote nodes using remote Serivce Control Manager (SCM) requests.   Generates an OpenView message (opcmsg) if a node doesn't respond.  Requires the .NET runtime 1.1 with Service Pack 1
RegPingNodeGroup.zip Command line tool that connects to remote node registries.  Generates an OpenView message (opcmsg) if a node doesn't respond.  Requires the .NET runtime 1.1 with Service Pack 1
PingNodeGroup.zip Command Line tool to ping remote nodes using ICMP echo requests.   Generates an OpenView message (opcmsg) if a node doesn't respond.  Requires the .NET runtime 1.1 with Service Pack 1

Updated July 1, 2005 so the tool sends "UP" messages.
ShareMapper.zip Command Line tool to probe remote windows shares and obtain performance information about the connection throughput and latency.   Generates an OpenView message (opcmsg) if a share isn't available, or if the performance metrics returned violate a configurable threshold.  Requires the .NET runtime 1.1 with Service Pack 1
SQLLogMonitor.zip Command Line tool to connect to Microsoft SQL Server instances and gather the SQL Log Entries.   This tool can connect to any SQL Instance, local or remote.   All messages are dumped to the OpCMsg Inteceptor for post-processing.  Your work:  Build the OpCMsg policy to categorize and filter the messages (it can be verbose!).
Syntax:  SqlLogMonitor.exe <servername[\instance]>

Example:  SQLLogMonitor.exe LUVIE\OVOPS will connect to the instance OVOPS on server LUVIE, and dump the current SQL Log.   

The tool remembers what position of it's last log read - and starts then the next time it runs.  The position is stored in the registry.  This tool is designed to run as a Scheduled Task, as a user that has read/write access to the local registry and sufficient rights to read the SQL error log.  The tool *ONLY* uses windows-integrated security - therefore the windows identity of your scheduled task needs to equate to a user with the correct SQL rights to read the SQL Server log.

The EXE Requires .NET runtime 1.1 with Service Pack 1.
ClusterMon.zip Command line tool that retrieves MSCS cluster status from local or remote MSCS clusters.  The tool stores the state in a serialized data file which is then used during the second sample to determine when cluster resources change state and location.  All state/location changes are sent to OV Messages.  See the readme.rtf for message catalogs, pattern matches that will work with the messages, and usage information.

Version 1.1 adds a new message to the catalog for resource group moves.

The EXE Requires .NET runtime 1.1 with Service Pack 1.