Better Windows Media Services Monitoring

I have had volunteers doing monitoring of our live services for quite some time. One of the trivial tasks that they have done is record the number of active streams during the service so we have metrics of how many people are watching, and of how much bandwidth we use. This has started becoming a growing task since we are adding more streams, and about to start streaming our multi-site service as well.

In the interest of getting better data, and more data points I have written / hacked together a script that will log the data for all the WMS publishing points with active data, and will also record total bandwidth. This little script can be scheduled to run every 5 minutes during your services and it logs the data to a CSV file so you can then import into any Database or Excel and graph or do what you want with it.

I will email the script to anyone interested along with installation instructions. Don't worry, it's really easy. Should take no more than 5 minutes to install have running!

Leave a comment or email me for a copy of the script and installation instructions!