Monitoring and Tuning Your Server

The HTTP Monitoring Tool

The HTTP Monitoring Tool, included on the Resource Kit companion CD, monitors HTTP activity on your server and alerts you to dramatic changes in activity. If a supposedly active server stops serving pages, for example, it might have crashed and probably needs to be checked. The HTTP Monitoring Tool is composed of three main components:

Real-Time Sampling Service is a Windows 2000 Service that makes HTTP requests to ASP pages on live machines.
SQL Reporting Server uses FTP to retrieve sampling results, and loads this data into a SQL Server database that is used for reporting the results.
Client Monitor uses ASP pages displayed in a browser to show status information about site availability, based on the data stored in the SQL Reporting Server.