Windows Computer Listening Ports

SCOM offers 'wizards' to monitor Windows services and processes. Most of the cases this is enough to ensure that an application works. Sometimes however multiple connections are handled by a service or a process.

Ready to use 'port monitors' help to identify if a port on a target machine responds. There are cases however where connection attempts can irritate or even crash an application.

In hybrid scenarios part of the application runs in the cloud. – A windows machine might act as gateway for example. It would be good to know if the connection to endpoint in the cloud is still active.

This management pack which uses netstat and powershell can help.