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I came across a very useful tool for logging port use in Windows. It is called the Port Reporter. This tool runs as a service on a Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 computer. It logs all TCP and UDP port use to log files. A seperate utility called the Port Reporter Parser provides a nice GUI interface for viewing the log files and analyzing the data.
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I have been having a problem with a Windows 2000 server consistently rebooting itself from a bugcheck. It is pretty annoying, since it always seems to happen between 12am and 2am, so my monitoring software wakes me up with a phone call. After the bugcheck Windows dumps all the memory into a 1gb file in the c:\windows directory. I usually just delete the file and restart the applications. But today, after a 12:30am wakeup, I decided to find out what that memory.dmp file is about.
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