Archive for October, 2011

Monitoring the right things

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

I've talked about this before, but I just read an article about why application performance monitoring is so screwed up, and coincidentally had just talked about it in a lecture I gave to a graduate class at UCSB on scalable computing, so figured it's worth a mention. The article mentions that ...

Powershell, snap ins and 32 bit apps

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

A more technical article today. In adding some more Exchange Monitoring we ran into some issues, and solutions, that may help others.  Some things in recent Exchange versions can only be monitored by Powershell. (Perfmon, WMI, Powershell, all needed for different versions of Exchange.... I wish they'd make up their mind...) So ...