Hello, I need to monitor the DNS name resolution in an external DNS server, for example google (8.8.8.8). Does anyone knows how to implement a monitor with: nslookup www.microsoft.com 8.8.8.8, to check if 8.8.8.8 is resolving names? and use it in distributed applications as a watcher. Thanks

you need to make sure a certain fqdn resolves to the correct ip or you need to know whether an external dns is running and working correctly? For the solution is doesn't really matter, create a timed script monitor which fires up a script (the script does the nslookup, catches the result and checks whether this is the expected result or not). Rob Korving http://jama00.wordpress.com/

you need to make sure a certain fqdn resolves to the correct ip or you need to know whether an external dns is running and working correctly? For the solution is doesn't really matter, create a timed script monitor which fires up the script, catches the result and checks whether this is the expected result or not.Rob Korving http://jama00.wordpress.com/

Perhaps you could use this community pack: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/PackCatalog/PackCatalogDetails/tabid/145/IndexID/11524/Default.aspx which uses a custom dll to do the lookup. Otherwise you could get cached results or results from your own internal dns server (and cached as well probably). So either create a script to do it and take care that you lookup directly to the outside dns server or use the approach Naele took in that mp. I have used it for one customer.Bob Cornelissen - BICTT (My BICTT Blog)