@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:

@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:

@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:

@dafyre Thank you for your insight! I am leaning towards Zabbix, just didn't want to launch a separate machine just for that. But I am sure I will find other uses for the machine

No need for a separate machine, just a separate VM. And you'd want a separate VM no matter what monitoring tool you go with.

I have a very small lan at a non-profit I am doing IT volunteer work for. They have very little if any budget so looking for the best free stuff if possible. When you say run everything in a VM, what are you using as a host? Is the host Windows or Linux and what would be the controller? I have used VirtualBox on Windows before, never done it on Linux. Not much experience with Linux except for web servers that run CentOS and cPanel or DirectAdmin control panels.

Thanks for all your help everyone!

You can maybe try https://www.lansweeper.com/ as well, for under 100 devices its free. I have personally not used it but have seen it appear in lots of searches.

No AD, its work group computers. There is a manual Local Policy set that removes admin users from being able to change the time as all users have admin accounts for Avimark.

@black3dynamite Yes =(

@JasGot Yes, it is actually the DC server. From task scheduler I have tried it logged in as the same account that is running the script and from a different user account with the script user not logged in at all.

It does run without trouble when running directly though, so not sure about a syntax error.

@JasGot In the script file you mean?

@JasGot Same account currently as the user running the script manually. Also forgot to mention it had been working before without adding net use and the UNC until someone else tried to make a modification.

Ok, so we have a simple robocopy script that copies over a db file from a remote server to the file server. When the script is run manually, directly from powershell it works without trouble but when the script is run from task scheduler it doesn't complete. It just shows as running and it eventually timesout according to the max time set to run in task scheduler. It actually doesn't create the robocopy log file so no idea what is really happening.

OS is Windows Server 2012R2
Script:
robocopy $originDirectory $destinationDirectory /mir /V /log+:C:\folder\script.log

Security options for the script are set:

Trigger is:
Program: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
Arguments: -Execution Policy Unrestricted -File "C:\folder\script.ps1"
Start in : C:\folder\

Share permissions are properly set since the script being manually run works properly unless I am missing something.

Credentials for the remote share are stored properly in credential manager.

Any idea what I am missing in order for the script to properly be run from task scheduler

Yeah, sorry misread you where looking for how to do it from windows that why I added the exe

Worth the try checking it @dbeato thanks, will try it once I can remote back into the machine today

@IRJ Try this:

qemu-img.exe convert source.qcow2 -O vpc -o subformat=fixed dest.vhd

Trying to do an install of SideNotesIM on a machine but keep getting an error message during the install that says: File SideNotes.exe is not marked for installation.

From what I have searched online, the error is not spefcifically a SideNotes error and its usually is caused by an old install that left either files or registry keys behind. CCCleaner was used to remove old registry entries and no other folder related to the app can be found.

Tried contacting the manufacturer directly but they couldn't help. Have any of you experienced this type of error before?

A couple of questions for people more experienced on the subject, this will be to deploy standard Windows 10 Pro images without using MDT.

• What would you consider to be best practices when using WDS to deploy standard Images?

• Pros and cons between pre-staging machines vs not doing so?

• When is it a good idea to setup a multicast ip scope?

Any other knowledge or experiences you wish to contribute, would be appreciated .

Firewall and routing troubleshooting for most of the day, it's been very busy today.

From the exchange admin.

@wrx7m Probably a lot less since during that time nothing else would be running. While currently the whole office was working regularly.

@wrx7m Yeah, CPU is around 90% while the transfer is going until the sudden disconnection.

Whats strange is we move this same files each morning from colocation to to the file server without any trouble.

Trying with TeraCopy, the legend file is offline appears quite often. We need to disconnect and reconnect to the VPN so the transfer starts again.

This seems to be network related, isn't it.

Apparently during the install of Asternic CDR reports a trigger was set that was pointing to a table that never got properly created. After I dropped the triggered from the asteriskcdrdb logging could start again.

Here is the trigger:

MariaDB [asteriskcdrdb]> show triggers;
+--------------+--------+-------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+---------+----------+----------------+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+
| Trigger      | Event  | Table | Statement                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Timing | Created | sql_mode | Definer        | character_set_client | collation_connection | Database Collation |
+--------------+--------+-------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+---------+----------+----------------+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+
| simp_channel | INSERT | cdr   | BEGIN

SET @orichn   = ''; SET @dstchn = '';

SELECT SUBSTRING(NEW.channel,1,LENGTH(NEW.channel)-LOCATE("-",REVERSE(NEW.channel))) INTO @orichn;
SELECT SUBSTRING(NEW.dstchannel,1,LENGTH(NEW.dstchannel)-LOCATE("-",REVERSE(NEW.dstchannel))) INTO @dstchn;

IF @dstchan LIKE 'Local/FM%' THEN

SELECT CONCAT('SIP/',SPLIT_STR(REPLACE(REPLACE(dstchannel,'#','-'),'@','-'),'-',2)) INTO @dstchn;
INSERT INTO acdrunichan VALUES (NEW.uniqueid,@orichn,@dstchn);

ELSE

INSERT INTO acdrunichan VALUES (NEW.uniqueid,@orichn,@dstchn);

END IF;
END | AFTER  | NULL    |          | root@localhost | utf8                 | utf8_general_ci      | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
+--------------+--------+-------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+---------+----------+----------------+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

Deleted it with:

DROP Trigger if exists asteriskcdrdb.simp_channel;

Remote user is trying to copy a DB backup from a Windows share to his desktop, the file size is around 12GB.

Transfer starts properly but after around 10-12 minutes of the transfer it just suddenly gets terminated.

The router is an EdgeRouter Lite, which also handles this same DB backup from colocation back to office without apparent trouble via site to site IPSEC VPN.

Any idea how to troubleshoot this, and figure out why the transfer can't complete?