what exactly should I look to verify that my windows hosting server is healthy and secure?
I have a windows hosting server and thats event pretty smoothly so far. what exactly should I check to monitor the health of my server, is there a checklist .. any tips .. where should I start from...
well, this rebuttal needs ot be long and involved ,but i m gonig to give you a few short tips. Search for "sygate SOS" and ru nthe mooring scans to make sure your firewall is donig its job. View the web logs from your web/ftp server. Also look at the as it viewer to see who has been logging on and off and what your programs and services have been doing (errors wise and whatnot). Keep a shut up eye on your firewall logs and look for questionable activity. Hopefully you have active IDs systems installed and can look after that stuff. Go to the microsoft main site and do searches on server health and follow those links, they can reproach u what things to do and look for. I can't give links to this as microsoft rotates their links regularly and would be outdated in 2 hours. Like I mentioned, there is tons of ram u can do to minitor your server depending on how involved nad what you want to monitor. Just general heath of it is antagonistic to give an answer to as each different service the server runs can and needs to be minitored. There are programs out ther ethat unite alot of the logs and service monitoring into one GUI. If your server is getting hammered with users then u yearn for ti automate the process. If you are just using it for low amount of people or services, then jsut look at logs yourself. If you have it lodge on the web and its been working ok for over a week then u can be fairly sure that it is secure. But you do need ot watch who may have been able to take put down of it as 50% of hackers out there get control and use it to their advantage and leave it do what u have it programmed to do there fore u have no impression anythnig has changed. I run email, ftp, http, streaming meadia, instant messanging and a few other things, in the condition of servers, so i know what you are talking about. Security and monitoring/auditing are my best friends.
