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LabTech Vitals Dashboard

Today we release the next round for the Squidworks Labtech Vitals Dashboard.

The Labtech Vitals Dashboard is a set of web pages that query the local Labtech MySql database and provides visual widgets of important data on the main display of the Labtech Support Console. We currently have 17 different widgets with 10 of them having detail views.

To install the Dashboard you will need to download and install PHP 5 for windows at PHP.net on your Labtech server. Afterwards download the SWVDB zip package and unzip to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\SWVDB. Go into this directory and find the header.php file and open it with notepad. You will need to edit the LT server address, Username and password for the LT database access to work.

Once completed you should be able to browse http://your.labtech.server/SWVDB/ and get the dashboard. Now to have the dashboard auto load in the console for everyone who uses support console go to your LT config dashboard -> Config -> Control Center and set the Initial URL Value to your tested URL from above.

Get the dashboard -> Download SWVDB here

Should look like this:

Widgets:

Systems Missing AntiVirus application

Agents missing patches

Agents Online

Offline Servers Alarms

Dell Appassure 5 Backup Core Monitor

ESX Hardware Health Monitor

Hitman Pro Monitor

Agent Monitors

ESX Monitor Details Page (Failed/Missing/All)

Dell Appassure Monitor Details (Completed and Failed)

Some widgets may not function correctly if you are not using the source data tables and extra monitor scripting I’ve made available like the Squidworks ESXi Health Monitor for Labtech located at ESX Health Monitor, The Dell Appassure Backups/Failures also requires my Appassure Backup Scripting to populate the database with data. You must edit the index.php page in notepad and uncomment the 5 function calls noted in index.php for ESX and Appassure counters to function. They have been commented out so that you do not get errors if tables are missing. Install both ESX and Appassure packages before uncommenting code block.

Enjoy

Cubert 😎

[Kaseya Agent Procedure] VMWare ESXi Hardware Health Monitor

VMWare ESXi Hardware Health Monitor Script

From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.

This script uses the SDK provided by VMWare to query the ESX host and return a good or bad variable. If the hardware test fails then the script grabs the log of the test and uploads it to Kaseya Server then places it under the “Get File” area for the host that ran the test. You can run this script on any windows box, I have also included the current vSphere SDK installer and a Kaseya script to install it if it is not found on the Windows Host.

Upload the SDK installer and Import the scripts to your public files area in Kaseya under the directory “VMWare”. If you place files anywhere else you will need to edit script for the new location of files.

The script then makes a unique event log entry into the Windows Application Event Log under the Application Events that can then be picked up by Kaseya’s Event Log Monitor. When Kaseya picks up this event you can instruct the monitor to create an alarm, create a ticket, run another agent procedure or email the alarm to an address(s). Just schedule the agent procedure to run a couple of times a day to keep an eye on your customers VMware vSphere ESXi Hardware health.

This script links to the CIM information provided by the hardware to the ESX host. You will see CPU, Memory, Fans, RAID and Controller Health. The log file that is uploaded will only show failures and will tell you what failed and on what ESX host.

Download -> Kaseya VMWare ESXi Hardware Monitor

Enjoy

Cubert 😎

[Kaseya Agent Procedure] Free Active Directory Health Monitor Script

Active Directory Health Monitor Script

From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.

The Active Directory Health Monitor Agent Procedure executes DCDiag on your Windows Active Directory server and captures any failures reported. The script then makes a unique event log entry into the Windows Application Event Log under the Application Events that can then be picked up by Kaseya’s Event Log Monitor. When Kaseya picks up this event you can instruct the monitor to create an alarm, create a ticket, run another agent procedure or email the alarm to an address(s). Just schedule the agent procedure to run a couple of times a day to keep an eye on your customers Active Directory health.

The script also provides a complete report of the DCDiag results in the event of a failure that you can view by going to the “Get Files” area of your host in Kaseya and under this folder will be an Active Directory folder where the DCDiag.txt file results are stored.

All files and a README are included in the ZIP. Feel free to POST here any issues or comments you may have.

Download -> Kaseya-ActiveDirectoryHealth

Enjoy

Cubert 😎

XYMON – ESX Hardware Health Monitor

Grab the Hardware Health of your VMware vSphere ESXi Host

Here is RC1 of my ESX Health Script for the XYmon monitoring server, not to be compared to the ESXi script going around for VM and Snapshot Health. ESXHealth monitors the physical health of the hardware running the ESX hyper-visor This script uses the xymoncgimsg.cgi to send status reports from a remote network to your XYmon Display Server thus allowing you to monitor ESX Host from anywhere really easily. Using this CGI allows you to run it from any windows box and send the notifications through port (http) friendly firewalls.

The only prereqs are, you must have installed the VMWare vSphere Perl SDK and have installed CURL or place the curl-nossl.exe provided in zip in the your PATH on Windows. Your XYmon server must have the xymoncgimsg.cgi moved from the xymon/server/bin folder to your xymon-cgi folder to allow web based status messages.

I have include the curl-nossl portable EXE with zip. Just drop it in the path for windows so you can call it by name. You will need to edit the script and update the URL to send the notifications to. I show an example in the script on how to use with a htpasswd protecting your web CGI for thoes who use that layer of security. If not then just place the standard URL for your xymoncgimsg.cgi and your good to go.

The script is very simple.

If all is good you get a “All’s OK” else if anything is bad it spits out any relevant info about that issue. The last error I got was for redundant Power lost to Supply 1 and was reported with plenty of detail to know what is wrong.

Just schedule windows to run every 15 minutes or so, see script for command line syntax for task scheduler

Download -> ESXHealth-1.1 Monitor for XYmon

The monitor will look like the following examples: (Never mind my XYMon theme)

I hope this helps someone out there.

Cubert 😎

XYMON -> New BBWin Client GUI 1.1 Released.

Are you looking for a BBWin Client GUI to configure BBWin.cfg?

Can I see by raise of hand how many of you out there wishes for a good BBWin GUI so you don’t have to edit a that bloody XML file. I am having to flip between Wordpad, Task Manager and the Services console to place in the services and processes I want to monitor on my Windows hosts and that was such a pain.

So out comes BBWin-GUI!

Download file –> BBWin-GUI-1.1

BBWin is an open source client for Windows working with BigBrother or Xymon(Hobbit) monitoring software. We also have a custom VM appliance with XYmon and Cacti pre installed and ready to go. See MAG Server here on Squidworks for more information.

Our new BBWin GUI will read in your current BBWin.cfg file and then allow you to edit it. It provides all the services and processes running on your system and pulls all the unique event logs so you may choose what to accept and what to ignore. Inside the new BBWin-GUI you will find your local disks and the ability to exclude disks as well as set the thresholds for warnings and panics. Checkout some of the screen shots below. Download and try BBWin GUI.

As always I hope this little app helps someone out there.

Enjoy

Cubert