Dear readers!
This blog post is written in english due to the large population of the monitor community, but can be found here in Swedish (with credits to Google :)).
Monitoring of a terminal server is an issue where most surveillance systems faces a challenge. Fair enough, resources are very easy to monitor, but that doesn’t really tell you that it is possible to logon to the terminal server. At IXX, we have taken the monitoring of our terminalservers one step further and developed a plugin for our op5 monitoring system that performs user actions and also measuring the time it takes to create graphs which at a later date can be evaluated.
So what does it do?
It’s so simple it’s unbelieveble. It creates a new session on the terminalserver, launches a few applications and then logs out the user. What could possibly be more easy than this? :)
And you get something like this;
Actually, it’s a bit more complicated than this. Not only does it requires an additional server to launch the RDP/ICA session from since you don’t really want an X-server nor do you want the load it creates on your monitoring server, it also requires proper GPO settings. The plugin was originally created to use RDP however modifying it to use ICA is as easy as replacing a binary and updating the GPO settings.
Contact us for further information regarding this and everything else that is monitoring related!
op5 – http://www.op5.com
nagios – http://www.nagios.org
cacti – http://www.cacti.net
