monitoring

How to Debug/Monitor SMTP Communications?

Debug HTTP is easy, you have all sort of tools to do it (like Fiddler). What about SMTP? How to Debug SMTP Communications? My target system is Windows. Suggested tools: Ethereal tcpdump Microsoft Network Monitor ...

Is there an easy way to monitor sessions in a tomcat web application?

I'm working on a web application using Spring MVC 2.5. I'm using Eclipse as my IDE and deploying to Tomcat 6. I'm concerned that I don't understand how sessions work in Spring, and was wondering how I might go about monitoring session status. I know that Tomcat has various monitoring capabilities, and I can even turn them on in Eclips...

Performance Monitoring in Silverlight 2.0 Application

Is there a way to monitor the CPU and memory usage of Silverlight 2.0 Applications? Are there any tools available for doing this? ...

How to send extra info in nagios email

I have setup a nagios monitoring and configured check_http plugin to check for a specific URL in my application. That url returns either 'ok' or an error message. My nagios sends me an email when it detects something not 'ok'. However what I am getting is only "HTTP CRITICAL - string not found". What I would like to get in email is the ...

How to know if a process had been started but crashed in Linux

Consider the following situation: - I am using Linux. I have doubt that my application has crashed. I had not enabled core dump. There is no information in the log. How can I be sure that, after the system restart my app was started, but now it is not running, because it has crashed. My app is configured as a service, written in C/C++....

Monitoring which statement updates (and when) a certain table row with Oracle 10

Hi all, I'm using (have to) a badly designed Oracle(10) DB, for which I don't have admin rights (although I can create tables, triggers, etc in my scheme). Now I had run into a problem: this DB connected with several users/programs. I must find out who updates a certain row, when, and if possible: with what kind of statement. Is it pos...

Is there a way to subscribe to IIs application pool events?

I'm in the need of monitoring IIs (v6) events. More specifically the application pool and Web Site events. Is there some API or WMI instrumentation to do this? This is not from an application perpective, but from an adminsitration perspective. I am not interested in starting, stopping or recycling programmatically. I'm interested in ...

IIS monitoring tool

Hello, I have a need for a tool that would monitor and more importantly log requests on IIS. This tool would have to report basic info about requests such as date/time of request, time spent for request, kbytes transferred... etc What do you people use for such monitoring? ...

Tivoli usage and manpower

Do you use Tivoli in your enterprise and if you do what packages do you use and how many people manage it? ...

What things would/should you like to monitor for a web application

In building a web application (not built on any specific framework) I'd like to build a "complete" set of tools for monitoring it. There are obviously some great tools out there for monitoring the DB or the Web Server, or App Server... but I'd like to build a dashboard that lets admin users monitor the overall health/status of the syste...

How to track task execution statistics using an ExecutorService?

I'm firing off tasks using an ExecutorService, dispatching tasks that need to be grouped by task-specific criteria: Task[type=a] Task[type=b] Task[type=a] ... Periodically I want to output the average length of time that each task took (grouped by type) along with statistical information such as mean/median and standard deviation. Th...

How to create a simple c# http monitor/blocker?

I was reading that question (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/226784/how-to-create-a-simple-proxy-in-c) that is near of my wishes. I simply want develop a c# app that, by example, monitors Firefox, IE, etc and logs all navigated pages. Depending of the visited page, I want to block the site (like a parental filter). Code snippets/sam...

How to monitor passenger / mod_rails processes?

Hi there, I searched the site already but couldn't find any suitable information. As there is always some expert around I'm sure one of guys knows exactly what I'm searching for :-) We're on a balanced system: Machine 1: HAProxy load balancer Machine 2 & 3: Apache mod_rails and (of course) our Rails applications Those were the d...

How do I make my program watch for file modification in C++?

There are a lot of programs, Visual Studio for instance, that can detect when an outside program modifies a file and then reload the file if the user wants chooses. Is there a relatively easy way to do this sort of thing in C++ (doesn't necessarily have to be platform independent)? ...

How can I monitor data on a serial port in Linux?

I'm debugging communications with a serial device, and I need to see all the data flowing both directions. It seems like this should be easy on Linux, where the serial port is represented by a file. Is there some way that I can do a sort of "bi-directional tee", where I tell my program to connect to a pipe that copies the data to a fil...

How can I Monitor the Performance of Individual Apps on Windows?

My XP machine has become terribly slow and I want to identify the application at fault. It seems to be related to disk access rather than processor hogging. I can look at the task manager to get a good idea but it's not ideal. I was wondering if there was some application that can monitor all aspects of processes effectively. Is Proc...

Publishing performance counters within Windows-based async-messaging application?

So I'm involved in building an application that's using an async messaging architecture. One of the requirements is monitoring performance from a central location; requests/sec at each node, requests/sec processed by series of nodes, etc. This is being built with .NET within a Windows-based platform, distributed across several machines...

Monitoring API calls

I am doing some reverse engineering and want to know which APIs are called from the executable. I am mostly interested in the APIs called on a particular Windows system DLL. I guess one way to do that is to get all APIs exposed from the DLL using dumpbin and put breakpoints on all those from Windbg. Any other approach? This seems like...

Monitor when an exe is launched

I have some services that an application needs running in order for some of the app's features to work. I would like to enable the option to only start the external Windows services to initialize after the application is launched. (as opposed to having them start automatically with the machine and take up memory when the application is ...

FileSystemWatcher does not fire when using C++ std::ofstream

I'm trying to add a log monitor to an in-house test utility for a windows service I'm working on. The service is written in C++ (win32) and the utility is in .NET (C#) The log monitor works for many other C++ apps I've written, but not for my service. The only main difference I can see is that the other apps use the older ::WriteFile(...