Scenario Windows provides the Remote Desktop functionality for a very long time. A lot of companies use this feature to build up a remote Desktop Farm and let people run programs remotely, very useful when there is a WAN connection with high latency in between. Starting from Windows server 2012, Microsoft added the possibility to…
Read MoreIcinga 2 is a powerful monitoring system that helps you keep track of your infrastructure. But like any monitoring tool, it can generate a lot of logs. Over time, these logs can accumulate, making it increasingly harder to find the critical information you need. If you’re using Icinga 2 on a Windows system, you might…
Read MoreScenario In this blog I’ll describe some advanced features of the DSC platform in order to automate the configuration of the monitoring agents. I’ve already described the basic topics in the first part of this blog: Installing and Configuring Monitoring Agents in a Windows Domain – Part 1 But just as a quick reminder, DSC…
Read MoreIn our previous post we discussed how to handle RD users using CMDO, focusing on the scripts needed to obtain a unique identifier for each users in the RD Farm. In this post I want to focus on how to create the CMDO commands and set their permissions correctly. Our user caseAs an admin I…
Read MoreScenarioIn a Microsoft Remote Desktop environment, it’s a common need to force the logoff of a hanged user session. The NetEye Command Orchestrator (CMDO) can help us perform this task by executing remote commands through the Icinga2 agent API. There’s a security limitation built into the Command Orchestrator which allows only numeric parameters for executed…
Read MoreScenario It’s quite typical to have several managed Windows Servers joined to a Windows Active Directory Domain. But how do you handle the automated installation and configuration of the monitoring agents? How do you keep them up to date? DSC Framework: A Potential Native Solution DSC (Desired State Configuration) is a management platform in PowerShell…
Read MoreI just today saw a page with good ideas for check for a Windows/Exchange/SQL Server. This is the original link if you are interested nagioswiki.com. Please pay attention when copy pasting it to your config files as you may have problems copy/past of the “ sign. Insert the following into you commands.cfg or define them…
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