Archive for the ‘Win2K3’ Category
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
I've been looking for some easy ways to enumerate all of the available performance counters on a Win32 platform programatically.
Rather than trawl through the PerfMon counter GUI, or regress back into the millions of raw counters available via WMI, I was looking for a solution somewhere in between.
The ActiveState version ...
Posted in Perl, Win2K3, Analysis, Tools, Tuning, Windows | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
IIS logs if setup properly can be an extremely useful source of information during load testing and for other activities such as capacity planning. Another load tester sings its praise here and provides good justification of why you should use it.
The log parser comes for free with the IIS resource ...
Posted in Win2K3, IIS, Logs, Analysis | No Comments »
Monday, August 6th, 2007
I often use a combination of cygwin with ssh to remotely manage windows servers, as I find this to be a quicker (and hopefully safer) method of access to my windows boxes. To that end, I often need to check windows application event logs. Typically you'd use the mmc, but ...
Posted in Perl, Win2K3, Security, Analysis | No Comments »
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
For an internet facing SSH server, it is probably common practice to have sshd listening on a non-standard port. Coupled with key pair authentication, this reduces the profile you present to simple brute force attacks.
Connecting to a SSH server on a non standard port is relatively simple:
ssh -p username@servername.com
You ...
Posted in Win2K3, Network, Security | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
If you are interested in using Amazon S3 as an alternative backup solution, you may need to move files from your windows box to the S3 storage account. In order to do this I recommend you use a version of rsync written in ruby.
Detailed instructions can be found in this ...
Posted in Win2K3, Backup | 1 Comment »
