Monitoring IIS server...

[Andreas Ericsson]

Steve Shipway wrote:
> 
> We had an issue with an IIS server, where the site would allocate
> session ID cookies when you connected that would time out after far too
> long.  Since we'd be connecting every 5 mins or more frequently for
> checks, this resulted in session IDs being eaten and the server running
> low on resources.
> 
> I agree this is a hosed server with a stupid configuration set up by
> brain-dead people with no more knowledge than an MCSE, but sadly that's
> what you get sometimes.
> 
> Management had two choices -
> 1) Fix the configuration of the IIS server
> 2) Stop monitoring it altogether
> 
> Which do you think they chose?  Sigh.
> 

Since they're management, they actually had more choices:
3) Buy a new web-server and a loadbalancer, clone the old configuration 
and use the loadbalancer to keep session-id's from being eaten.
4) Buy more RAM for the old server.
5) Buy a new, beefier, server.

The trouble with management is that *any* action that gives the desired 
result is, from their point of view, correct and side-effects are only 
important if they affect *this* budget-year.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

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