State Passive Instrumentation Node (SPIN)
Philip Tong of US Consulate Hong Kong is credited with popularizing the code that has become SPIN - State Passive Instrumentation Node - or just sometimes Dashboard.
The dashboard is an .ASP script that runs on your webserver and provides basic information in a single glance about the status of your servers, your network - switches, circuits, etc.
We are working on getting more documentation, general data, etc. Feel free to contribute!
For SPIN to work:
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Install into your webroot dir on your webserver and create a website for it. The app pools under IIS7 (including the default app pool) need to use the domain IUSR account.
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Please use the local GP editor to add the domain\Iuser account to each server's local security policies as follows: Local Computer Policy (group policy editor) [Console Root\Local Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment]
access this computer from the network adjust memory quotas for a process Allow logon on locally Generate security audit Impersonate a client after authentication logon as a batch job logon as a service replace a process level token
Make certain that your app pools are also using the domain\iusr account, and not the local servers. ** Make certain that the domain IUSR account has permissions to the SPIN directory **