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      log-server
      nt-status-server
      remoteping-server
      unix-status-server
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Remstats was written by Thomas Erskine at the CRC in Canada and now looking for work.

	usage: nt-status-server [options]
	where options are:
	    -a      show all available performance counters
	    -d ddd  enable debugging at level 'ddd' [$main::debug]
	    -h      show this help message
	    -i [ppp sss] install this as an NT service, using 'ppp' as
		    as perl and 'sss' as this script.  Defaults to
			perl=C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
			script=wherever-it's-invoked-from
	    -p ppp  run server on port 'ppp' [1957]
	    -s      run stand-alone, i.e. not as a service
		-t ttt  trust hosts 'ttt' (comma-separated) [127.0.0.1]
		-T      show status in title-bar of window
	    -u      un-install this service

The nt-status-server allows the nt-status-collector to get data from a remote machine running some flavour of NT and possibly Windows 2000. It runs various programs from the NT Resource Kit, for some information and examines the NT performance counters for other information.

For details on installation, look at the server installation docs.

The nt-status-collector connects to the nt-status-server and sends a series of commands, ending with 'GO'. Then the server sends back the data it obtained and closes the connection. The commands are often the names of programs to run (in UPPERCASE) and the ones known currently are:

• SRVINFO - runs SRVINFO and returns the version of NT
• PERFCOUNTERS - examines the NT performance counters and returns information about memory, disk, processes, ...
• PULIST - runs PULIST (from the NT ResKit) and shows counts for all the running processes.
• MSDRPT - runs WINMSDP to show (currently) memory total and free.
• USRSTAT - runs USRSTAT (from the NT ResKit) and shows when the various users in the specified NT domain last logged in, and which domain-controller authorized them.
• NETVIEW - runs "NET VIEW" to list the computers currently visible.
• TIME - compares local and remote times

If you want to see what it returns, you can simply start it up and telnet to it.

• It is intended that it will eventually install itself as an NT service, and most of the code is there, but it doesn't currently work. Patches gratefully accepted. For now you have to invoke it with the -s switch to have it run stand-alone or use SRVANY to provide the NT service stuff, (which also requires the -s flag.
• Not only is is currently single-threaded (i.e. won't accept more than one connection at a time), but if a second connection comes in the server won't answer any more requests and will have to be re-started. I've added code to nt-status-collector so that it won't run if there is another instance running already. This won't help if you're using telnet to test the nt-status-server, so be prepared to restart nt-status-server if it gets wedged because of this.