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A reader recently told me about a problem with the Sophos UTM web application firewall. Due to the Corona crisis, many of the employees have moved to the home office and have since been using more connections to the Exchange server, which are protected by the WAF of the Sophos UTM. So after there was a higher load on the UTM during the day ... Read more
As already announced here, this is the first article on the topic of Exchange Server Monitoring. This article is about the PRTG software from Paessler. PRTG has been on the market for quite a long time and I would classify it as a "classic" monitoring tool. PRTG is therefore well suited for monitoring hardware, ... Read more
A long time ago I had created a small script (Exchange Monitor) which allows a very rudimentary monitoring of Exchange servers. However, the script no longer works with the current Exchange Server versions. I had actually planned to revise the script or I had already experimented with a revised version. Unfortunately, the first ... Read more
Since I started using NoSpamProxy as a spam filter and S/MIME gateway at the beginning of the year, I also created a corresponding PRTG sensor for the most important values. With the PRTG PowerShell Sensor, NoSpamProxy can be monitored quite effectively. If anyone can also use the script, it can be downloaded here: The script must then be installed in ... Read more
I recently added 3 Ubiquiti (UBNT) switches to my private network. After replacing the old switches with the new UBNT switches, these now also had to be integrated into the monitoring. I use the free version of PRTG to monitor my network. For the Unifi access points there is already ... Read more
Jan Kappen has written a great HowTo on the subject of Grafana, InfluxDB and PowerShell. Jan describes the installation, configuration and use of Grafana and InfluxDB on his blog: Grafana, InfluxDB and Windows PowerShell - Part 1 Grafana, InfluxDB and Windows PowerShell - Part 2 Grafana, InfluxDB and Windows PowerShell - Part 3 Grafana, InfluxDB and Windows ... Read more
I have already received several emails regarding the monitoring of Sophos EMail Protection. As I also use email protection in my private environment, this topic is also of interest to me. The UTM's Mail Manager already provides a very useful overview, but it is not very practical to have this overview permanently open in the browser. Read more
I'm currently working on my private PRTG installation and stumbled across the PRTG IPFIX sensor by chance. IPFIX is a further development of Cisco Netflow and is also used to collect and visualize traffic data within a network. Since the Sophos UTM also supports IPFIX, PRTG can use the IPFIX data ... Read more
In the last article, I had already announced that I would also like to use PRTG to monitor the web server protection of the Sophos UTM. Unfortunately, PRTG only offers generic sensors for the UTM, which makes monitoring a little more difficult. I've made some progress with the Sophos RESTful API, but unfortunately RESTful ... Read more
In this article, I already presented a small script that checks the Exchange HealthCheck URLs. Since I use PRTG for monitoring in my private environment, I used a separate sensor for the HealthCheck URLs. PRTG comes with a whole range of sensors for Exchange Server, but due to the limitation of 100 ... Read more
