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Monitoring the Event Log with PowerShell

Posted by gygon on Saturday, March 21st, 2009

One of my goals with learning more about PowerShell is to be able to monitor the event logs on servers and notify me via email when certain events happen. The system Iâ€™m looking to monitor are not part of a domain, are in remote locations on isolated networks. Some of the main things Iâ€™m looking [...]

PowerBoots for PowerShell

Posted by gygon on Friday, March 20th, 2009

Came across a post today on an introduction to PowerBoots. WOW!
Iâ€™m already thinking of more stuff I can automate to make my life (and some others in the office) a lot easier. Definitely need to learn more PowerShell & Boots!

Email a web page through PowerShell

Posted by gygon on Thursday, March 19th, 2009

On a hosted web based app, I needed to go to a page every day to kick off a process. Nothing needed to be done on the page other than to open it and it would do it’s daily stuff. Easy, but a pain to have to do every day. And even more so on [...]

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Setup MRTG on Ubuntu

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

I have an old system that is running Ubuntu on it for the main purpose of running MRTG. Once it was setup the only time I ever connect to it (other than viewing the stats pages) is when I need to add additional devices to be monitored. Because I don’t do this often I always [...]

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Web Tools

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

I havenâ€™t had a chance to try this out yet (too busy playing around with Windows 7 running on my new Asus EeePC 1000HE) but Microsoft Glimmer looks like a really cool tool to create some nice JQuery scripts without having to do any coding. Definitely something to check out: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/glimmer
Also came across this site [...]