I think the answer really depends on how much you want to do. Out of the box, there are bunch of tools (from Nagios -> Solarwinds -> BMC Patrol) that will do the basic stuff. If you are a heavy Microsoft shop, then I don't think you can go part SCOM. If you are a mixed shop, then one of the other tools is probably a better fit (in an enterprise scenario).
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, 16 April 2010 11:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? +1 on nagios. Once you get it setup it's pretty easy to configure - it's just a matter of copy/pasting the little text based config definitions around. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server monitoring solution recommendations? On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Cameron <cameron.orl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have a look at Nagios. > www.nagios.org > > Sounds like it will do a lot of what you are looking for and the best > part....tis free! And very complicated, from what I was able to gather. :-) I also looked into the free version of GroundWorks (which uses Nagios, I believe), and there was an awful lot of configuring that needed to be done, to get even simple information. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
