I’m getting quite some questions about the location of the DMZ monitoring and Un-trusted domain monitoring guides created by Walter Eikenboom and which were published on my old weblog.


This is the article from Walter and I’ve updated the links to the guides.


A lot of talk in newsgroups and forums are about getting gateway servers and DMZ servers monitoring up and running. The problem is not how to install an agent or a gateway server but the communication between the agents/gateway server and the management group. The first things that must be in place for monitoring DMZ servers, Workgroup servers or a gateway server is the DNS availability for resolving all participating server by its FQDN. When that's in place there must be communication between the servers over port 5723, default setting, for the agent or gateway server to the Management group.


With these basic functionality and the following installation en configuration guides on DMZ/Workgroup servers and Gateway servers it should be a piece of cake.


DMZ monitoring guide, agent talks directly to the management group.

Un-trusted domain monitoring guide, agents in the un-trusted domain talk to the Gateway server where the Gateway server will forward the data to the management group.


When the installation steps are taken in the wrong order the Gateway server will be seen as a normal agent monitored server. Make sure that you run the Gateway approval tool before installing the Gateway server software on the Gateway server.


While writing the Gateway server installation guide i bumpt into the MOM Team site. They wrote an article on how the Gateway server deploys agents and how much bandwidth is used for the Management group to Gateway server communication and its compression ratios, it seems like some nice additional reading.


Regards,
Walter Eikenboom