Monitoring Windows Services from BIG-IP

Community MVP hwidjaja dropped a bomb-sized nugget of wisdom in the forums last week that I would be remiss if I didn’t write up and share with the greater community at large.  Zenoss has a WMI execu...
Published Dec 28, 2010
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Dec 29, 2010
There is another program that could make monitoring easy as well without WMI enabled on servers for any reason.

 

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winexe/

 

 

Anyway, check just two important issues...

 

 

- F5 support doesn't like external binaries on our boxes.

 

- be aware about the cpu load when monitoring with heavy binaries and many servers if your RDP farm has many members.