See my response John......you are in a round-about way, correct. I manage and configure our Nagios setups from my Windows based desktop ;)
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:23 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>wrote: > Ahh… my bad. I thought I’d read somewhere that there was a way to make it > run in Windows. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 10:13 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? > > > > There’s not a Windows version of Nagios, however there are Windows plugins > to monitor Windows servers, AD, Exchange, even VM’s. > > > > *Jay Dale* > > I.T. Manager, 3GiG > > Mobile: 713.299.2541 > > Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com <kandy.luk...@3-gig.com> > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may > contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the > intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and > attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive > information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply > e-mail and delete all copies of this message. > > > > > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 9:12 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? > > > > AFAIK, isn’t there a Windows version of Nagios? Not that I’m a Linux > doubter (I **run** Fedora at home on my personal machine! J) but not > everyone here is comfortable running Linux. J > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 10:00 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? > > > > +1 on Nagios. > > > > I’m not a Linux person by any stretch, but there’s a ton of references out > there that helps with the setup of Nagios, and it’s free. > > > > It took about a week to get everything the way I wanted it, but it’s > working good now – email alerts and all, using Exchange 2007. > > > > Jay > > > > *Jay Dale* > > I.T. Manager, 3GiG > > Mobile: 713.299.2541 > > Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com <kandy.luk...@3-gig.com> > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may > contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the > intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and > attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive > information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply > e-mail and delete all copies of this message. > > > > > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 8:36 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? > > > > If you want “free and easy and does 95%” – look at Polymon. > > > > If you want “complete and fairly easy” – OpsMgr is the answer. It rocks. > > > > If you want “free and complete” – Nagios is a good answer, but it isn’t > easy to setup. > > > > IMHO. YMMV. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 9:12 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Server monitoring solution recommendations? > > > > System Center Operations Manager 2007 is what we use here - it has the > capability to monitor ESX hosts and other .nix boxes as well as Windows > servers (although getting the Unix stuff into the console is a bit of a > fight, as I found out last week). It's only drawback from your point of view > is probably the cost, but it does a fantastic job of aggregating everything > that would normally come from Dell IT Assistant, Windows event log > collectors, Citrix XenApp, VMWare VirtualCenter and just about every > application we use, and displaying it all in one nice console on the wall. > YMMV > > On 16 April 2010 14:07, Michael Leone <oozerd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm investigating server monitoring solutions for my enterprise. What > I'm interested in is real world experiences and recommendations, not > just sales pitches and product sheets that I can get from Google. > > The way I see it, I need 2 basic functions: I need to be able to > monitor various aspects of a server (CPU usage, free disk space, is a > service running, does the web service return a web page in a timely > manner, is the switch at that site being overloaded, etc - the usual > things you'd want to know from a server, I think) and then alert me > when certain triggers or thresholds are crossed; and also to provide > historical reports, showing trends over time. At a previous job, I > used to ServersAlive!, which suited my needs there. But now I am at a > place that has over 100 servers and switches, across multiple sites. > And so I think I'd need something with more heft, perhaps. > > We're an HP shop, and I am looking at HP's SIM (Insight Manager) > software, but that doesn't seem to monitor all the sorts of functions > I want, nor does it seem to present it in a timely manner. > > I'm also looking at PacketTraps PT 360 tool suite (which is free), and > that seems to show me some of what I need, but doesn't seem to have a > lot in the way of reporting, nor have I found a way (yet) for it to > alert me to configurable settings. > > I've also downloaded SpiceWorks, on the recommendation of a colleague, > but haven't had a chance to investigate it yet. > > We're a gov't agency, so I don't have a whole lot of money. But I have > a need, and at the moment, nothing in place to fill it. Getting an > alert email that tells me that my mail server CPU has been up over 80% > for more than xx seconds would be a good thing, so I don't have to get > phone calls from users, asking why mail is so slow, and that's the > first I've heard of it. I'm sure you get the idea. And the boss wants > reports over time, for capacity planning and the like. > > So any recommendations would be welcome, as would anything I've > forgotten. We're almost exclusively a Windows shop, but with 10 VMware > ESX hosts, a number of MS SQL servers (2000, 2005), and a number of > Cisco switches (and a couple Nortel ones scattered here and there). No > Exchange (we're a Notes shop). > > TIA > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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