Longitude, from Heroix, is the best I've come across that doesn't cost an arm and 15 legs. It's much less expensive than the SolarWinds stuff, and monitors a lot of stuff, including but not limited to Windows WMI, SQL, Netflow, Citrix, Exchange, VMware, and,....well, a lot of stuff.
They have some extremely knowledgeable people there that know more about monitoring than most of us even imagined existed. http://www.heroix.com/ it's worth the time to check it out. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: Network monitoring tools All, My manager is looking for a network/server monitoring package, which pleases me no end. My SAlive installation if 5.0 running on a Win2k box, and I haven't had time to do more than a token install of nagios. However, he doesn't want open source stuff (so nagios, mrtg, jffnms, opennms, etc. are out), and would even like a hardware appliance. Budget isn't huge, but possible up to about $10k. He's mentioned Netmon (http://netmon.ca) as he has experience with it, but is casting about for other solutions. A smaller package like SAlive is probably not what he's looking for, nor What's Up, though he's not as averse to the latter. Anyone have a package they're familiar with and like? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
