Monitoring Connections in IIS

[RyanVM]

Back in the Win98 Microsoft Personal Web Server era, there was an option to view the current active connections to your server and what was open. Now I'm using WinXP and IIS5.1 and I don't see any option like that. I know that you can use netstat to view current connections, but that doesn't give me the option of seeing what is being accessed on the server and to close connections.

Is there a program that comes with WinXP that does this or one I can download which does this?

And yes, I would love to use Apache, but it does not like to configure itself on my computer...been there, tried that...

 

[RyanVM]

BUMP

anyone?

 

[MontyBurns]

If you have XP Pro, and are logged in as admin:

Start --> Administrative Tools --> Computer management

Select Shared Folders

From within that tree, you can see which files are currently open on your computer, and which processes have ownership of them. This isn't as sophisticated as what you're looking for, but at least can give you some idea of what is going on. You can also close particular connections (or, just disable/disconnect specific processes.)

 

[MrChad]

HTTP is generally a stateless connection, so viewing "active" connections and closing them really doesn't have any meaning. Every time you view a web page, your connection is opened and closed. The exception to this rule is a web application that employs session management (usually by setting some sort of cookie on the client). You can create administrative pages for a web application that allow you to view and expire current sessions on a server, but I don't believe that IIS has any sort of built-in capability for this.