Monitoring Microsoft DNS servers
Overview
MonitorPack Guard computer needs a quick configuration, just follow these few steps or download MonitorPack documentation. this has to be done only once in your company infrastructure.
MonitorPack team provides regular useful metrics to easily monitor your Windows servers. These are basic metrics, if you want to go deaper
MonitorPack is able to check any existing performance counters, services, process, winsocks and shares in your monitoring, for more information for Windows server monitoring have a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671175(v=exchg.80).aspx
| Action |
Script alert |
Descritption |
How |
What |
| 1 |
DNS server |
restart DNS service with net start command |
MonitorPack script alert |
Your script |
How to monitor my DNS servers with MonitorPack Guard at no cost
Open MonitorPack Guard > Expand Monitoring menu > Select manage Alerts.
In the MonitorPack Guard manager panel select your alert type and select
"create a new alert"
| ID |
Performance counters alert |
Instance |
Rule |
Value |
| 1 |
DNS server |
DNS\Total Response Sent/sec |
> |
Your baseline |
| 2 |
DNS Server |
DNS\Total Response Sent/sec |
> |
Your baseline |
| 3 |
DNS Server |
DNS\Database Node Memory /sec |
> |
Your baseline |
| 4 |
DNS Server |
DNS64 Global\AAAA queries - Failed |
> |
Your baseline |
| ID |
Windows processes alert |
Process name |
When |
Status |
| 1 |
DNS |
dns.exe |
Stopped |
True |
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Windows services alert |
Service name |
When |
Status |
| 1 |
DNS |
DNS Server |
Stopped |
True |
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| ID |
Windows Socket |
Socket name |
Port |
Value |
| 1 |
DNS |
DNS |
53 |
False |
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Windows shares |
Share name |
Share |
Value |
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Windows printers |
Printer name |
Port |
Status |
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| ID |
Windows Events |
Journal Name |
Level |
Source |
Event ID |
| 1 |
DNS |
DNS Server |
Warning |
Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Server-Service |
4013 |
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