New to IIS and need your help

If my boss comes to me and asks me how many concurrent sessions we are
seeing on our Web Servers, how do I do so ?

Also what are some useful perfmon counters to check health of our IIS Web
Servers ?
If there is a link, could you send it to me ?

Also, what info is in the IIS Logs ? Where is it located? How can I parse it
and save it in a db ?

Any other question I need to be asking ;) ?

Re: New to IIS and need your help

"Hassan" wrote in message
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> If my boss comes to me and asks me how many concurrent sessions we are
> seeing on our Web Servers, how do I do so ?
>
> Also what are some useful perfmon counters to check health of our IIS Web
> Servers ?
> If there is a link, could you send it to me ?
>
> Also, what info is in the IIS Logs ? Where is it located? How can I parse
> it and save it in a db ?
>
> Any other question I need to be asking ;) ?
>
>

yes, perfmon has lots of interesting counters for iis. current connections,
max connections, bytes/sec, etc are nice ones to watch if you like.

iis will log all sorts of stuff depending on the options you select. i
usually pick the w3c extended log file format and use the free tool 'analog'
to analyze it, but you can import into databases or other tools also.

the most important thing you haven't asked is how to properly secure your
server... hopefully you have done at least the basic steps, or it may be too
late already.

Re: New to IIS and need your help

Dave,

Can you pass me more info about those perfmon counters ? What are the exact
ones I need ?

Also, where can I download analog from ?

In addition, what are the basic steps needed to secure the Web Servers?

Sorry to ask all these questions, but I want to learn.

"Dave" wrote in message
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>
> "Hassan" wrote in message
> news:OLCfHgIJIHA.5904@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> If my boss comes to me and asks me how many concurrent sessions we are
>> seeing on our Web Servers, how do I do so ?
>>
>> Also what are some useful perfmon counters to check health of our IIS Web
>> Servers ?
>> If there is a link, could you send it to me ?
>>
>> Also, what info is in the IIS Logs ? Where is it located? How can I parse
>> it and save it in a db ?
>>
>> Any other question I need to be asking ;) ?
>>
>>
>
> yes, perfmon has lots of interesting counters for iis. current
> connections, max connections, bytes/sec, etc are nice ones to watch if you
> like.
>
> iis will log all sorts of stuff depending on the options you select. i
> usually pick the w3c extended log file format and use the free tool
> 'analog' to analyze it, but you can import into databases or other tools
> also.
>
> the most important thing you haven't asked is how to properly secure your
> server... hopefully you have done at least the basic steps, or it may be
> too late already.
>
>

Re: New to IIS and need your help

for perfmon you get to select whatever you want to watch. that is the least
of your problems right now.

analog is from http://www.analog.cx/

Securing web server:
1. don't put it on the internet until it is secure.
2. after you skip step 1, start over from scratch because its probably
already too late.

minimum steps:
1. firewall everything except the port(s) you need.
2. run iis lockdown or similar tool to disable everything you don't need.
3. update with all the latest security updates from ms
4. run the mbsa tool or similar security analyzer
5. have current anti virus running
6. turn off or remove any other services that the above haven't already shut
off that you don't need.

there are probably more, some depends on just what you are using the server
for and who needs access to it.



"Hassan" wrote in message
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> Dave,
>
> Can you pass me more info about those perfmon counters ? What are the
> exact ones I need ?
>
> Also, where can I download analog from ?
>
> In addition, what are the basic steps needed to secure the Web Servers?
>
> Sorry to ask all these questions, but I want to learn.
>
> "Dave" wrote in message
> news:Ol6PxBJJIHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Hassan" wrote in message
>> news:OLCfHgIJIHA.5904@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> If my boss comes to me and asks me how many concurrent sessions we are
>>> seeing on our Web Servers, how do I do so ?
>>>
>>> Also what are some useful perfmon counters to check health of our IIS
>>> Web Servers ?
>>> If there is a link, could you send it to me ?
>>>
>>> Also, what info is in the IIS Logs ? Where is it located? How can I
>>> parse it and save it in a db ?
>>>
>>> Any other question I need to be asking ;) ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> yes, perfmon has lots of interesting counters for iis. current
>> connections, max connections, bytes/sec, etc are nice ones to watch if
>> you like.
>>
>> iis will log all sorts of stuff depending on the options you select. i
>> usually pick the w3c extended log file format and use the free tool
>> 'analog' to analyze it, but you can import into databases or other tools
>> also.
>>
>> the most important thing you haven't asked is how to properly secure your
>> server... hopefully you have done at least the basic steps, or it may be
>> too late already.
>>
>>
>
>