Monitors for Managed Microsoft IIS - WWW Service, FTP Service, SMTP Service

Updated by Jared Ruckle on Oct 14, 2014
Article Code: kb/952

The following tables detail the monitors support for the Managed Microsoft IIS WWW, FTP, and SMTP Services.

Monitors for Microsoft IIS WWW Service

Monitor

Description

Frequency

IIS CPU Usage

The IIS inetInfo process is over 90%

5 Min

IIS Memory Usage

The IIS inetInfo process memory usage is greater than 90% of the total server memory

5 Min

IIS ASP State Service

The IIS ASP.net State service is not running

1 Min

IIS Admin Service

The IIS Admin (inetInfo) service is not running

1 Min

IIS WWW Service

The IIS W3SVC service is not running

1 Min

IIS Application Host Helper Service

The IIS Application Host Helper service is not running

1 Min

IIS WAS Service

The IIS WAS service is not running

1 Min

Windows Event Log

The Event log is polled for IIS Errors related to the web server components of IIS

Instant

IIS WWW Port Check

Alarms if TCP Port 80 is not listening

5 Min

IIS Blocked Requests

Alarms when a request was denied because a user defined bandwidth threshold was exceeded

5 Min

IIS Not Found Errors

Alarms when a 404 error is generated

5 Min

Monitors for Microsoft IIS FTP Service

Monitor

Description

Frequency

FTP Service

The IIS FTP service is not running

1 Min

Windows Event Log

The Event log is polled for IIS Errors related to the FTP server components of IIS

Instant

FTP Port Check

Alarms if TCP port 21 is not listening

5 Min

FTP Bytes Sent

Alarms if the FTP Service is sending more than x MB

15 Min

FTP Bytes Received

Alarms if the FTP Service is receiving more than x MB

15 Min

 Monitors for Microsoft IIS SMTP Service

Monitor

Description

Frequency

SMTP Service

The IIS SMTP service is not running

1 Min

Windows Event Log

The Event log is polled for IIS Errors related to the FTP server components of IIS

Instant

SMTP Port Check

Alarms if TCP port 25 is not listening

5 Min

SMTP Connection Refused

Alarms when the server cannot create an outbound connection

5 Min