Hi All,

As I’ve explained in my previous the series is taking a bit of a turn here and we’re going to start some blogs about remediation instead of just monitoring. I’ll link back to a previous blog and will explain how we automatically react to these issues within our RMM, if you do not have an RMM – Don’t worry! We’ll include the monitoring + remediation script so you can combine the scripts any way you’d like.

The first monitoring and remediation we’re getting on is Hyper-V replication, where we will try to resolve the replication if the server was unreachable for some time, force a resync, and clear the statistics.

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Hi All,
Today we will be focusing on monitoring the status of the Windows and office activation status, we use an imaging application to supply all of our machines with the correct version of Windows, but sometimes its forgotten to actually activate the OS. This script checks the current activation status and alerts on it.

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Today we will be focusing on monitoring the anti-virus status of computers or servers that communicate with the Microsoft Security Center, The Security Center WMI Namespace actually has a lot of information about the current state of all security products, as long as they integrate and communicate with WMI.

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Today we will be focusing on monitoring the Compellent SAN status from a single server, Most Compellents are delivered with Dell’s Co-Pilot functionality and do not require you to monitor it yourself, but I also enjoy having an extra set of eyes on my shared storage – Also in some security restricted environments we cannot use the Co-pilot functionality and have to rely on our own monitoring sets.
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Hi All,

As the last series of blogs was so well received I’ve decided to continue the trend and make some new blogs about monitoring using PowerShell. I’ll be showing some examples on how monitoring could work in your RMM-suite and will include examples for major RMM suppliers such as Solarwinds.
I hope you’ll enjoy the new series of Monitoring with PowerShell, in the start of Chapter 2 we will be focusing on leveraging PowerShell to monitor external hardware such as Compellent SANs, the status of known exploits such as now famous Meltdown/SPECTRE, and SSL certificates, near the end of this series we will be shifting the focus from monitoring to automated remediation when an issue is found.

I hope you will enjoy the next series of blogs and if you have any questions feel free to drop a comment below.