Applications Manager provides in-depth availability
and performance monitoring of IIS Servers. Applications
Manager connects to the IIS server and checks for the
availability and response time at regular intervals
of time.
The IIS Management feature helps optimize IIS server performance
and also provides comprehensive management reports. It ensures
availability through automated event escalation via email,
SMS etc. and helps taking corrective action by executing user
scripts that can help, restart a service etc.
The components that are monitored in IIS Server:
Availability
Checks for the availability
of IIS Server
Response Time
Gives the response time
of the IIS Server
Website Stats
If the host in which IIS server is running, is monitored
in WMI mode, the website stats can also be monitored.
Attributes monitored:
Bytes Transferred: Bytes Sent Per Second,
Bytes Received per Second, Bytes Total Per Second
Files Transferred: Files Sent Per sec, Files
Received Per sec, Files Transferred Per Sec
Connection Statistics: Current Connections
Anonymous Users: Current Annonymous Users,
Anonymous Users per Second
Non Anonymous Users: Current NonAnonymous
Users, Non Anonymous Users per Second
IIS Monitoring Capabilities
Out-of-the-box management of IIS server.
Monitors performance statistics such as availability,
response time and website stats.
Based on the thresholds configured, notifications and
alerts are generated if the IIS or any specified attribute
within the system has problems. Actions are executed automatically
based on configurations.
Performance graphs and reports are available instantly.
Reports can be grouped and displayed based on availability,
health, and connection time.
Delivers both historical and current IIS performance metrics,
delivering insight into the performance over a period of
time.
Blog on : Tip: Want to stop monitoring during maintenance
You are having your scheduled maintenance of your servers / you do not want to monitor your servers during sundays or for any random time period. The problem: Alerts are generated for a known downtime.You can beat the situation by easily configuring the known downtime using the downtime scheduler.Go to Admin tab -> click on Downtime Scheduler (under tools)..... read full blog