Use this Knowledge Script to monitor the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) activity for a Domain Name Service (DNS) server. This script checks the number of lookup requests received per second and the number of responses sent per second. This script raises an event if the lookup-received rate, reverse lookup-received rate, response‑sent rate, or reverse response-sent rate exceeds the threshold you set.
DNS folder
The default interval for this script is Every 30 minutes.
Set the following parameters as needed:
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Parameter |
How to Set It |
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Event? |
Set to y to raise an event if the sent or received rates exceed the threshold. The default is y. |
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Collect data? |
Set to y to collect data for charts and reports. If enabled, data collection returns four datastreams:
The default is n. |
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Lookups received/sent per second |
Specify the maximum number of lookups that can be received or responses that can be sent per second before an event is raised. The default is 20 per second. |
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Event severity |
Set the event severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which a threshold is exceeded. The default is 15 (yellow event indicator). |