General Set Device Polling to 3 minutes, for all devices CPU Threshold for Servers, Domain Controllers Monitor

every 15 minutes. Set alarm if threshold violdated 2 times Threshold limites: > 90 Rearm at 80 Memory Threshold for Servers, Domain Controllers Monitor every 15 minutes. Set alarm if threshold violdated 2 times Threshold limites: > 95 Rearm at 90 All drives should be monitored for space. When the drive utilization is greater than 95%, an Alert shold be sent. The message should be cleared when the space utilization is less than 91% Ensure all devices are managed

If a server is being used for a specific application / purpose, such as RightFax or Hummingbirds Document Manag services specific to that server should be monitored Switches Monitors Resource ADD Traffic ADD

Buffer Create Failures, CPU, Memory

All 8 Interfaces Set a threshold for only Tx and Rx Utilization Theshold: 15 minute polling, after 4 missed polls, 90% utilization, clear at 80% Vendor Specific Applications ADD Backplane Utilization Ports ADD NONE

Routers Monitors Resource Add Traffic ADD

Buffer Create Failures, Router CPU, Router Memory All 8 Interfaces Set a threshold for only Tx and Rx Utilization Theshold: 15 minute polling, after 4 missed polls, 90% utilization, clear at 80% Do not make changes to those that show be default

Vendor Specific ADD Interfaces ADD

Ethernet & Serial - there are multiple monitors for this. You should only add the active Eth Remote anything else

Firewalls Monitors

Resources Add Traffic ADD

CPU, Active Session Count, Memory All 8 Interfaces Set a threshold for only Tx and Rx Utilization Theshold: 15 minute polling, after 4 missed polls, 90% utilization, clear at 80% Do no remove any, but ensure there are not thresholds set

Vendor Specifc ADD Interfaces ADD

Anything that has a green light by default

Domain Controllers Active Directory Monitors Network ADD Database Leave any that show by default Remove ANY / ALL thresholds Remove ANY / ALL thresholds Remove ANY / ALL thresholds Remove ANY / ALL thresholds Remove ANY / ALL thresholds Remove ANY / ALL thresholds Remove ANY / ALL thresholds

ADD Leave any that show by default NTFRS Process ADD System Leave any that show by default

ADD Leave any that show by default Performance Counters ADD Leave any that show by default LSASS Process Monitors ADD Leave any that show by default Active Directory Services ADD Monitors Service ADD Leave any that show by default

Use the Services worksheet, in this workbook, to determine the servers that sould be mon This is device specific

Windows Service ADD Auto Updates NetLogon Server Service SNMP Windows Time Resource ADD CPU, Memory, Disk Utilitzation, Disk Free Space in GB Traffic ADD All 8 Interfaces Set a threshold for only Tx and Rx Utilization Theshold: 15 minute polling, after 4 missed polls, 90% utilization, clear at 80%

Interfaces ADD Anything that has a green light by default

Servers Monitors Windows Service ADD (All servers) Auto Updates Server SNMP ADD (SQL) For SQL, only monitor SQL Server Service and SQL Server Agent Service. ONLY monitor for up and down for these services ADD (Exchange) Any version of Exchange

Monitor

o Message Transfer Agent Work Queue

Length o SMTP Remote Queue Length Remote Retry Queue Length Local Queue Length Local Retry Queue Length
Exchange 2007

Service

IIS Admin - World Wide Web Publishing Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology Microsoft Exchange Information Store Microsoft Exchange Mail

Submission Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistant Microsoft Exchange Replication Service Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer Microsoft Exchange Search Host Microsoft Exchange System Attendant Microsoft Exchange Search

ADD (Device Specific) Use the Services worksheet, in this workbook, to determine the servers that sould addition This is device specific Resource ADD CPU, Memory, Disk Utilitzation, Disk Free Space in GB Traffic

ADD

All 8 Interfaces Set a threshold for only Tx and Rx Utilization Theshold: 15 minute polling, after 4 missed polls, 90% utilization, clear at 80%

MSSQL Buffer Monitors ADD

Leave monitors that default Turn off ALL thresholds expect, Buffer Cache Hit Ratio Set alarm at 80. Reset alarm at 85 Set status to attention Polling: 15 Send Alarm if threshold is violated 3 times

Cache Montors ADD

Leave monitors that default Turn off all thresholds

Database Monitors ADD Leave monitors that default Turn off ALL thresholds except: Log Size Used Percentage Set alarm at 1 gig. Reset alarm at 500 meg Set status to attention Polling: 15 Send Alarm if threshold is violated 3 times For the following monitors General Locks Memory MSSQL Leave monitors that default Turn off ALL thresholds