That's interesting. It seems though that from a knowledgeable
administrator's point of view in a small business that this would be
very expensive and wouldn't net any real return. Most small businesses
that I know with up to 100 seats are very tight with their IT spending
and go the route of outsourcing virtually all of their needs. Things
are probably quite different in places like metro NYC, CA and WA as
well as your neck of the woods.
Although my own solution fits my needs, I did check out ipmonitor.com
and it looks like a real nice product if you want to plunk down $995.
This puts them in the more expensive category, but it looks like it
does everything. There's even a "NOC View"
(http://www.ipmonitor.com/network_monitoring/software/report.aspx).
Matt
Colbeck, Andrew wrote:
I find that companies that will
pay for Microsoft Exchange Server and Client licences (and other
BackOffice products) wouldn't blink at the cost of MOM; and the pricing
is staggered so that you can buy as much utility as you can
realistically implement.
What I find attractive is not
the application management so much as the Event Log gathering and
reporting.
Weirdly enough, it's not the
large shops that I've seen deploying MOM, but rather, it's the small to
medium sized shops that don't have the in-house expertise and find MOM
cheaper than outsourcing the high-end technologists. In particular,
MOM provides the basic "root cause analysis" that junior technologists
lack, e.g. so that MOM can tell the help desk that the webserver outage
is really a DNS problem.
Andrew 8)
Maybe that's because it costs an arm and a leg:
http://www.microsoft.com/mom/howtobuy/default.mspx
This is really remote management software and not just simply
monitoring and reporting. Probably makes sense in big enterprises but
not for small businesses.
Matt
Colbeck, Andrew wrote:
I'm quite surprised that nobody has named:
http://www.microsoft.com/mom/default.mspx
Microsoft MOM yet. It's quite popular in Microsft shops.
Andrew 8)
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WhatsUp someversionorother http://www.ipswitch.com
Nagios (Open Source, with a *nix bent) http://www.nagios.org/
Andrew 8)
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Hey,
I know this is off topic, but I respect the knowledge and
opinions of
the people on this list.
What software / services do you guys use to watch your servers for
up/down status?
-Jerry
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