Greg Saunders wrote:
Hi all, I'm looking for recommendations on server monitoring, reporting,
notification toolkit(s). Something to run as a cron job and let me know
if my drive is filling up, CPU has been running at 100% for days on end,
there's no RAM left and you could fry bacon on the HDD because of all
the swapping, that kind of thing. I'm starting to get too many servers
to worry about and I don't want to log in to each of them every day to
check on things ... I'm lazy :)
So, what's been working for ya all?
I test drove Spiceworks at my last job & I was pretty happy with what it
was offering. It is free for any use but you get ads on the side of it,
but I find them easy to ignore.
There is another similar product call Paglo & I just got a post about
server monitoring here recently with a link to a blog post. This
product is free for an use as well, but you only get a certain number of
things. I can't remember the limitations, but it should be on their
website. Here is the link for the article with some pretty pictures:
http://community.paglo.com/blog_forum/index/8-paglo-technical-blog
Both of these either are open source or based on open source
products...I can't remember. They are both IT management focused so may
be overkill for what you want. Both have active community sections &
you can share dashboards with others. When I was test driving
Spiceworks I found their tech support very good & gave quick responses.
I have no experience with Paglo.
I also came across something called GLPI which is similar to the others
but I am not sure about monitoring. There is another one in a similat
vain, but I can't think of it right now.
Here are a few others I have come across..not really tested, but look
interesting:
* http://www.bigsister.ch/bigsister.html
* http://www.lookatlan.com/
* http://www.groundworkopensource.com/products/
* http://www.paessler.com/tools
* http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php
* http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/network/fwnetmoni.html
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