introduction
this article we will discuss IIS Management Pack and how to use it to monitor websites in your environment
about IIS MP
Management Pack for Internet Information Services provides proactive and reactive monitoring of your Internet Information Services (IIS) environment.
This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary.
The management pack helps to simplify the administrative environment by providing a single console for the administrator to perform a number of useful monitoring tasks.
To help troubleshoot common issues, the management pack contains helpful product knowledge and a way to extend this knowledge through adding your own company or organization knowledge related to an issue.
Key Monitoring Scenarios
The list below describes common monitoring scenarios.
- Monitor the Web Server status and the status of the following services: Web management, FTP, SMTP, Windows Process Activation Service (WAS).
- Monitor that the following are running and available: Web site, Application Pool, FTP Site, SMTP Virtual Server.
- Detect an alert on configuration and resource errors logged by IIS 8 components.
- Monitor application pool recycling events to detect application pools which may be executing code that is generating memory leaks or other memory usage problems, and then change the health state accordingly.
network diagram
please have a look to pioneers.lab network diagram above :
we have SCOM server called SCOM142 with IP address 172.16.100.142
regarding IIS we have the following server that run IIS :
- DC101 : as part of Certificate authority installation
- Mail105 : as part of exchange 2013 installation , which include many subsites like OWA ,ECP …etc
- SCCM141 : as part of configuration manager installation ,and also for WSUS
- SCOM142 : as part of operating manager installation
we will use SCOM with IIS management Pack to monitor websites in pioneers organization
Let’s GO
import IIS MP
importing IIS MP [ and any MP ] is straight forward process
- Start the SCOM Console. In the SCOM console, click Administration
- Right-click Management Packs, and then click Import Management Packs.
- The Import Management Packs wizard opens. Click Add, and then click Add from catalog .
what to monitor with IIS MP ?
as we said earlier we can monitor many services in monitoring workspace
here some areas that could bring your attention
Conclusion
IIS MP provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary.
The monitoring pack helps to simplify the administrative environment by providing a single console for the administrator to perform a number of useful monitoring tasks.
To help troubleshoot common issues, the monitoring pack contains helpful product knowledge and a way to extend this knowledge through adding your own company or organization knowledge related to an issue
