MonitorWP
Here’s an example of how monitor CPU usage for a specific worker process and send an alert if a defined threshold is exceeded.
MonitorWP | Worker Process CPU usage
Windows Server 2003 Inventory & BPA (Webserver)
Here’s an example of HTML configuration report generation with PowerShell. The script scans a fews WMI classes to build the report, and act like a Best Practices Analyzer.
Windows Server 2003 Inventory | Webserver Best Practices Analyzer
LogCentralizer
Today, I lacked inspiration; or rather I lacked needs to fill … So I found one: Sudhakaran B. asked for some help on the “PowerShell Power Users” LinkedIn discussion group:
we need to get the iis and event logs from production servers, then we need to zip those files to someother location on a daily basis
The Daily Reboot (with execution check)
To workaround memory leaks in its application, one of my customers had an old bad thing on its webservers: a scheduled perl script to reboot the servers each day which uses the ‘Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown’ function. Let’s improve it a little bit with powershell.
Daily Reboot | Schedule a reboot and check its execution
Merry XMas
A little fun for christmas: display a flickering christmas tree… Really usefull!
But can mesmerize more than one child…
Christmas Tree | Customize your PowerShell console
Monitor Services (Active!)
Here’s a one-liner solution script to actively monitor services. The script gets all services with a startup mode ‘Automatic’ and if some are stopped, starts them.
Monitor your services | Restart automatically stopped services
BruteForceMD5
Here’s the first of two (planned but maybe more, we’ll see!) scripts around MD5 hash and strings using the function Check-MD5 and …
EventsToExcel
Here’s an example working on the automation of Excel worksheet filling. For this example, data comes from the eventlog, but obviously any …
Get-PerfGraphs
Perfmon is a powerfull tool, for sysadmins… But to provide nice (and especially readable for them!) graphs for your managers, here’s a …
Freshly installed IIS7.x basic tuning
We saw yesterday the different ways to install IIS7.x with PowerShell. “When I’m paid, I always follow my job through. You know …
PowerShell ways to install IIS7.x
We’re talking here about PowerShell and IIS; maybe the first thing to do should have been to install IIS (7.x) with PowerShell… …
CountFiles
Here’s a script to count files under the specified path (or the working directory if the parameter is omitted) and times the …
MassMail
Here’s a script to send massmails. It allows to send the same message many times, one to each email address defined in …
IpRangeScan
Here’s a script to scan an entire IP range. It allows to find out what IP addresses are free and what are …
Convert a PowerShell script to an EXE file
It’s not a “real” conversion, but it gives us an ‘.exe’ file, and the one who will use it doesn’t need to …