Completely Understand - Yes; cost is still high. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server monitoring solution recommendations?
Cost-effective? Not the last time I looked at it. However, when I last used it in production (um, well, more than 10 years ago) it was *very* nice. Kurt On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:55, <kstephenso...@thinkpath.com> wrote: > Hello Steven > One other product which I used previously was WhatsUp(r) Gold Premium > Edition provides an extensive and cost-effective out-of-the-box single > site management and monitoring solution for networks of all sizes > > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stringham, Steven [mailto:sstri...@lrlaw.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:50 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? > > +1 Nagios - yes a bit to setup - but it just runs. > > +1 also for Cacti - if you want the historical graphs. Very nice. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 6:07 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Server monitoring solution recommendations? > > 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). 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