Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring RRAS status.

Kelvin Tegelaar | 30 Oct, 2019 | 1 Mins Read

So for my clients I’ve always relied completely on the Microsoft stack – I do not like most VPN appliances but still want to offer a stable SSL VPN for all clients. Enter SSTP, I’ve blogged about SSTP before when looking at DirectAccess or even Always-on VPN.

As with all products, appliances or server I always want to know the current state of the availability. In the case of SSTP VPN on anything higher than Windows Server 2012 we have a lot of PowerShell options available but we’ll only need one – Microsoft’s get-RemoteAccessHealth. When we execute Get-RemoteAccessHealth we get a nice display of the current state of the RRAS services.

Using the script below you can directly monitor the health of the current RRAS server, it’s a simple and short one.

$RRASHealth = Get-RemoteAccessHealth -Refresh | where-object { $_.HealthState -ne "OK"}
if(!$RRASHealth) { $RRASHealth = "Healthy"}

Hope it helps, and as always, Happy PowerShelling!

CyberDrain CTF returns! (and so do I!)

It’s been since september that I actually picked up a digital pen equivalent and wrote anything down. This was due to me being busy with life but also my side projects like CIPP. I’m trying to get back into the game of scripting and blogging about these scripts. There’s still so much to automate and so little time, right? ;)

Intro

This is a monitoring script requested via Reddit, One of the reddit r/msp users wondered how they can monitor Acronis a little bit easier. I jumped on this because it happened pretty much at the same time that I was asked to speak at the Acronis CyberSummit so it kinda made sense to script this so I have something to demonstrate at my session there.

Intro

Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I’ve just been so swamped with CIPP that I’ve just let the blogging go entirely. It’s a shame because I think out of all my hobbies it’s one I enjoy the most. It’s always nice helping others achieve their scripting target. I even got a couple of LinkedIn questions asking if I was done with blogging but I’m not. Writing always gives me some more piece of mind so I’ll try to catch up again. I know I’ve said that before but this time I’ll follow through. I’m sitting down right now and scheduling the release of 5 blogs in one go. No more whining and no more waiting.