• Follow up:

    Let's all thank Drew for the contribution. Monitoring is a necessary, but a neglected topic.

    Getting a centralized monitoring server is a real must, even for smaller shops.

    For those not wanting to learn and/or write ASP web pages, I highly suggest you consider using SSRS as the reporting tool. You have less control with the vanilla framework, but its up and running fast. ~ But, Drew's ASP.net approach will look better and will be more impressive.

    Consider capturing all activity, and include succeed/fail flag, along with start/stop duration data. Then in the report, you can review just the exceptions, or all data, plus, with SSRS you can chart out time durations, etc, etc.

    The more you are prepared, the less you need it.