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Monitor website performance in IIS with Zabbix
Monitor your website performance in IIS with Zabbix and Performance Counters. Scripting in PowerShell and WMI.
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Windows SID to username and vice versa
Sometimes you need to convert a Windows SID (security identifier) to an username, or vice versa (an username to an SID). In this post I show you a couple of methods to translate the one into the other. One is using VBScript and one is using PowerShell.
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Get IIS Current Connections using PowerShell
Use PowerShell, Performance Counters and WMI to get the current number of active connections to IIS websites. Perfect for monitoring IIS webservers in Zabbix.
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Monitor .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap from your web application
Use Zabbix to monitor your web application and application pool's .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap by utilizing WMI and PowerShell. Keeping track of .NET memory usage enables you to optimize usage and performance further.
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Getting more out your Windows Performance Counters monitoring for web applications – part 3
This is part 3 about Zabbix monitoring for your websites and ASP.NET applications in IIS. This time I'll show you how to get data from Win32_PerfRawData_PerfProc_Process counter, fast, for everey application pool This counter is notorious for its slowness, but you can get data a bit faster. IIS AppPool Insights in Zabbix - because there is always more than one way.
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Monitor IIS application pools in Zabbix, part 1
Zabbix can harnas the powers of WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) to query the Windows system for data. In Zabbix you use wmi.getall for this. Here is a small introduction to query the number of running w3wp.exe processes per IIS application pool in Zabbix.
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Emulate ternary operator in PowerShell
Emulate ternary or conditional operator in PowerShell 5. It takes three operands: a condition followed by a question mark (?), then an expression to execute if the condition is truthy followed by a colon (:), and finally the expression to execute if the condition is falsy. This operator is frequently used as an alternative to an if...else statement.
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WMI Filters for Group Policy to manage Windows Server versions
Create effective WMI filters for Group Policy to have a more granular control on specific versions of Windows Server. In this post I provide some basic WMI filter examples to use with Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
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Working with file attributes in PowerShell
Here is how to use Get-Item and Get-ItemProperty in PowerShell to perform and streamline day to day tasks like installing or updating software based on file versions. Working with PowerShell's Get-ItemProperty to get file attributes may boost your work productivity. It's often easier to getting things done if you have a more generic way of doing something. I also address changing timestamps on files in short.
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Enable NTFS long paths GPO in Windows Server 2022, 2019 and Windows Server 2016
With Windows Server 2016 released, we can finally lift the idiotic 260 characters limitation for NTFS paths. In this post I'll show you how to configure the "Enable Win32 long paths" Group Policy, and how to make the "LongPathsEnabled" change in the Windows registry. The NTFS long paths GPO is also still required for Windows Server 2022 and 2019.
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How to install IIS URL Rewrite Module on Windows Server 2016 & IIS 10
You can't install IIS URL Rewrite Module 2 on Windows Server 2016 and IIS 10.0, because it exits with an incompatibility message. Looks like the installer tries to compare strings as version numbers. Here is how to successfully install IIS URL Rewrite Module in IIS 10.
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Get Hyper-V guest serial number with PowerShell
Get Hyper-V virtual machine's serial number (BIOSSerialNumber) with PowerShell. Easy to use & unique information in automation, deployments and documentation. Perfect for an automatic, unattended deployment of the guest OS.