RE: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Ken Schaefer 
SCOM is definitely geared to the Microsoft eco-system. For monitoring stuff 
that comes from non-Microsoft vendors, you generally need an MP from that 
vendor (or author your own). SCOM requires a fair amount of tuning 
out-of-the-box as the MS MPs generate vast amounts of information. MyITForum 
has a pretty active SCOM forum

From: helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 31 December 2010 2:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Monitoring Software


Thank you for the quick response.

To be honest we are not looking at free stuff due to various reasonshence I 
did not ask that question earlier but...

Having read what I have...no comments on SCOM ?

why not SCOM ??

Does it require a lot of scripting hence it is not proffered ?

OR

Does it not integrate with switches / routers easily ?
Does it not perform mrtg graphs ?
Does it require more resources ?
Does it not monitor vmware ?

OR

Once you purchase the product from MS than you basically go to 3rd parties to 
buy plug-ins for SCOM ? like quest supply some modules ?


cheers

John




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RE: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Jacob 
Well.. I do have a gift card for Amazon.. hmm

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Monitoring Software

 



I know this guy that wrote a book to make it easy…. J

 

http://snurl.com/45ppf



 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Monitoring Software

 

We still use Whats Up. I tried tackling SCOM.. I just got lost in it and I
do not have the time to play with it.  SCCM was a breezy, SCOM.. ugh!

 

From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Monitoring Software

 

Just my opinion as someone who has tangled with SCOM recently.  You can do a
whole lot with Ops Mgr (a WHOLE LOT), but if short learning curve and
friendly GUI are two of your pre-reqs – you may want to look elsewhere.
If you can dedicate some time and training to learning it – it is a cool
product.

 

Personally, I’m still a fan of IPMonitor.  I believe Solar Winds owns them
now.  IPMonitor did everything I asked of it and was an easy set up with a
clean GUI.  It did not provide native insight into MS applications – it
primarily monitored ping and service availability, but you could have it
watch and alert based on event log entries.  If we did not already have a
large investment in SCOM here, I would be seriously looking into bringing
IPMonitor on board.

 

 

Jim Holmgren

Manager of Server Engineering

XLHealth Corporation

The Warehouse at Camden Yards

351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

Baltimore, MD 21201 

410.625.2200 (main)

443.524.8573 (direct)

443-506.2400 (cell)

www.xlhealth.com

 

 

 

From: helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Monitoring Software

 

Hello

 

We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring.

 

We are not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the box ?


 

or 

 

any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be
enterprise level ?

 

Central Data center + local site offices too..

 

Monitoring services for example:

 

1. Exchange 2010

2. SQL monitoring.

3. Windows 2008 R2

4. Vmware 4.x

5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500.

6. Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and prepare
web graphs (mrtg like )

7. Web services..

8. 

 

Some concerns:

---

1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly the
better. :)

 

 

 

 

cheers

 

John 

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RE: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Michael B. Smith 

I know this guy that wrote a book to make it easy :)

http://snurl.com/45ppf


Regards,

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Consultant and Exchange MVP
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From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Monitoring Software

We still use Whats Up. I tried tackling SCOM.. I just got lost in it and I do 
not have the time to play with it.  SCCM was a breezy, SCOM.. ugh!

From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Monitoring Software

Just my opinion as someone who has tangled with SCOM recently.  You can do a 
whole lot with Ops Mgr (a WHOLE LOT), but if short learning curve and friendly 
GUI are two of your pre-reqs - you may want to look elsewhere.If you can 
dedicate some time and training to learning it - it is a cool product.

Personally, I'm still a fan of IPMonitor.  I believe Solar Winds owns them now. 
 IPMonitor did everything I asked of it and was an easy set up with a clean 
GUI.  It did not provide native insight into MS applications - it primarily 
monitored ping and service availability, but you could have it watch and alert 
based on event log entries.  If we did not already have a large investment in 
SCOM here, I would be seriously looking into bringing IPMonitor on board.


Jim Holmgren
Manager of Server Engineering
XLHealth Corporation
The Warehouse at Camden Yards
351 West Camden Street, Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21201
410.625.2200 (main)
443.524.8573 (direct)
443-506.2400 (cell)
www.xlhealth.com<http://www.xlhealth.com>



From: helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Monitoring Software

Hello

We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring.

We are not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the box ?

or

any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be 
enterprise level ?

Central Data center + local site offices too..

Monitoring services for example:

1. Exchange 2010
2. SQL monitoring.
3. Windows 2008 R2
4. Vmware 4.x
5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500.
6. Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and prepare 
web graphs (mrtg like )
7. Web services..
8.

Some concerns:
---
1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly the 
better. :)




cheers

John

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RE: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Jacob 
We still use Whats Up. I tried tackling SCOM.. I just got lost in it and I
do not have the time to play with it.  SCCM was a breezy, SCOM.. ugh!

 

From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Monitoring Software

 

Just my opinion as someone who has tangled with SCOM recently.  You can do a
whole lot with Ops Mgr (a WHOLE LOT), but if short learning curve and
friendly GUI are two of your pre-reqs – you may want to look elsewhere.
If you can dedicate some time and training to learning it – it is a cool
product.

 

Personally, I’m still a fan of IPMonitor.  I believe Solar Winds owns them
now.  IPMonitor did everything I asked of it and was an easy set up with a
clean GUI.  It did not provide native insight into MS applications – it
primarily monitored ping and service availability, but you could have it
watch and alert based on event log entries.  If we did not already have a
large investment in SCOM here, I would be seriously looking into bringing
IPMonitor on board.

 

 

Jim Holmgren

Manager of Server Engineering

XLHealth Corporation

The Warehouse at Camden Yards

351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

Baltimore, MD 21201 

410.625.2200 (main)

443.524.8573 (direct)

443-506.2400 (cell)

www.xlhealth.com

 

 

 

From: helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Monitoring Software

 

Hello

 

We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring.

 

We are not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the box ?


 

or 

 

any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be
enterprise level ?

 

Central Data center + local site offices too..

 

Monitoring services for example:

 

1. Exchange 2010

2. SQL monitoring.

3. Windows 2008 R2

4. Vmware 4.x

5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500.

6. Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and prepare
web graphs (mrtg like )

7. Web services..

8. 

 

Some concerns:

---

1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly the
better. :)

 

 

 

 

cheers

 

John 

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Re: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Andrew S. Baker 
Plenty.

ZenOSS, Nagios, Hyperic, etc...

Of course, many of those run on Linux rather than Windows, which might be a
problem for the specific environment that this solution is being requested
for.


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On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Miguel Gonzalez  wrote:

> And anything open source or free?
>
> Miguel
>
> --- El *jue, 30/12/10, Andrew S. Baker * escribió:
>
>
> De: Andrew S. Baker 
> Asunto: Re: Monitoring Software
> Para: "NT System Admin Issues" 
> Fecha: jueves, 30 de diciembre, 2010 09:31
>
>
> +1
>
> Very flexible product which I evaluated quite a bit based on Kim's earlier
> recommendation.
>
> Another option is PRTG, which is very good BUT has high memory consumption
> if lots of WMI monitoring is utilized.
>
>
> *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker>
> *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...*
> * *
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Kim Longenbaugh 
> http://mc/compose?to=k...@colonialsavings.com>
> > wrote:
>
> Take a look at Longitude, from Heroix.  It’s pretty comprehensive, and much
> less expensive than Solar Winds, for example.
>
>
>
> *From:* helpdesk UK 
> [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=uk.helpd...@gmail.com>]
>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:38 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Monitoring Software
>
>
>
> Hello
>
>
>
> We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring.
>
>
>
> We are not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the box
> ?
>
>
>
> or
>
>
>
> any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be
> enterprise level ?
>
>
>
> Central Data center + local site offices too..
>
>
>
> Monitoring services for example:
>
>
>
> 1. Exchange 2010
>
> 2. SQL monitoring.
>
> 3. Windows 2008 R2
>
> 4. Vmware 4.x
>
> 5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500.
>
> 6. Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and
> prepare web graphs (mrtg like )
>
> 7. Web services..
>
> 8.
>
>
>
> Some concerns:
>
> ---
>
> 1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly the
> better. :)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> cheers
>
>
>
> John
>
>
>

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Re: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread helpdesk UK 
Thank you for the quick response.

To be honest we are not looking at free stuff due to various
reasonshence I did not ask that question earlier but...

Having read what I have...no comments on SCOM ?

why not SCOM ??

Does it require a lot of scripting hence it is not proffered ?

OR

Does it not integrate with switches / routers easily ?
Does it not perform mrtg graphs ?
Does it require more resources ?
Does it not monitor vmware ?

OR

Once you purchase the product from MS than you basically go to 3rd parties
to buy plug-ins for SCOM ? like quest supply some modules ?


cheers

John




On 30 December 2010 15:01, Erik Goldoff  wrote:

>  http://www.nagios.org/
>
>
>
> *Erik Goldoff***
>
> *IT  Consultant*
>
> *Systems, Networks, & Security *
>
> '  Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '
>
> *From:* Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es]
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:50 AM
>
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Monitoring Software
>
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>
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RE: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Erik Goldoff 
http://www.nagios.org/

 

Erik Goldoff

IT  Consultant

Systems, Networks, & Security 

'  Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '

From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Monitoring Software

 


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Re: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Miguel Gonzalez 
And anything open source or free?

Miguel

--- El jue, 30/12/10, Andrew S. Baker  escribió:

De: Andrew S. Baker 
Asunto: Re: Monitoring Software
Para: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Fecha: jueves, 30 de diciembre, 2010 09:31

+1    
Very flexible product which I evaluated quite a bit based on Kim's earlier 
recommendation.


Another option is PRTG, which is very good BUT has high memory consumption if 
lots of WMI monitoring is utilized.



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On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Kim Longenbaugh  
wrote:


Take a look at Longitude, from Heroix.  It’s pretty comprehensive, and much 
less expensive than Solar Winds, for example.

 From: helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com] 


Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Monitoring Software Hello

 We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring. We are 
not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the box ? 

 or  any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be 
enterprise level ?

 Central Data center + local site offices too.. Monitoring services for 
example:

 1. Exchange 20102. SQL monitoring.3. Windows 2008 R2

4. Vmware 4.x5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500.6. 
Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and prepare web 
graphs (mrtg like )

7. Web services..8.  Some concerns:---

1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly the 
better. :)  

  cheers John ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~


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Re: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Andrew S. Baker 
+1

Very flexible product which I evaluated quite a bit based on Kim's earlier
recommendation.

Another option is PRTG, which is very good BUT has high memory consumption
if lots of WMI monitoring is utilized.


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On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Kim Longenbaugh
wrote:

> Take a look at Longitude, from Heroix.  It’s pretty comprehensive, and much
> less expensive than Solar Winds, for example.
>
>
>
> *From:* helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:38 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Monitoring Software
>
>
>
> Hello
>
>
>
> We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring.
>
>
>
> We are not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the box
> ?
>
>
>
> or
>
>
>
> any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be
> enterprise level ?
>
>
>
> Central Data center + local site offices too..
>
>
>
> Monitoring services for example:
>
>
>
> 1. Exchange 2010
>
> 2. SQL monitoring.
>
> 3. Windows 2008 R2
>
> 4. Vmware 4.x
>
> 5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500.
>
> 6. Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and
> prepare web graphs (mrtg like )
>
> 7. Web services..
>
> 8.
>
>
>
> Some concerns:
>
> ---
>
> 1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly the
> better. :)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> cheers
>
>
>
> John
>
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RE: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Kim Longenbaugh 
Take a look at Longitude, from Heroix.  It's pretty comprehensive, and
much less expensive than Solar Winds, for example.

 

From: helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Monitoring Software

 

Hello

 

We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring.

 

We are not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the
box ? 

 

or 

 

any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be
enterprise level ?

 

Central Data center + local site offices too..

 

Monitoring services for example:

 

1. Exchange 2010

2. SQL monitoring.

3. Windows 2008 R2

4. Vmware 4.x

5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500.

6. Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and
prepare web graphs (mrtg like )

7. Web services..

8. 

 

Some concerns:

---

1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly
the better. :)

 

 

 

 

cheers

 

John 

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RE: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) 
I agree with Jim about IPMONITOR of Solar Winds. I've used it for years and it 
was a great tool. However, the Solar Winds Orion Network Performance Monitor 
takes it to the next level.  Take a look at Solar Winds, they have a lot of 
great tools and some are free.

 

Joe Haralson

Network Infrastructure Team

 

From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Monitoring Software

 

Just my opinion as someone who has tangled with SCOM recently.  You can do a 
whole lot with Ops Mgr (a WHOLE LOT), but if short learning curve and friendly 
GUI are two of your pre-reqs - you may want to look elsewhere.If you can 
dedicate some time and training to learning it - it is a cool product.

 

Personally, I'm still a fan of IPMonitor.  I believe Solar Winds owns them now. 
 IPMonitor did everything I asked of it and was an easy set up with a clean 
GUI.  It did not provide native insight into MS applications - it primarily 
monitored ping and service availability, but you could have it watch and alert 
based on event log entries.  If we did not already have a large investment in 
SCOM here, I would be seriously looking into bringing IPMonitor on board.

 

 

Jim Holmgren

Manager of Server Engineering

XLHealth Corporation

The Warehouse at Camden Yards

351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

Baltimore, MD 21201 

410.625.2200 (main)

443.524.8573 (direct)

443-506.2400 (cell)

www.xlhealth.com

 

 

 

From: helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Monitoring Software

 

Hello

 

We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring.

 

We are not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the box ? 

 

or 

 

any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be 
enterprise level ?

 

Central Data center + local site offices too..

 

Monitoring services for example:

 

1. Exchange 2010

2. SQL monitoring.

3. Windows 2008 R2

4. Vmware 4.x

5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500.

6. Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and prepare 
web graphs (mrtg like )

7. Web services..

8. 

 

Some concerns:

---

1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly the 
better. :)

 

 

 

 

cheers

 

John 

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RE: Monitoring Software

2010-12-30 Thread Jim Holmgren 
Just my opinion as someone who has tangled with SCOM recently.  You can
do a whole lot with Ops Mgr (a WHOLE LOT), but if short learning curve
and friendly GUI are two of your pre-reqs - you may want to look
elsewhere.If you can dedicate some time and training to learning it
- it is a cool product.

 

Personally, I'm still a fan of IPMonitor.  I believe Solar Winds owns
them now.  IPMonitor did everything I asked of it and was an easy set up
with a clean GUI.  It did not provide native insight into MS
applications - it primarily monitored ping and service availability, but
you could have it watch and alert based on event log entries.  If we did
not already have a large investment in SCOM here, I would be seriously
looking into bringing IPMonitor on board.

 

 

Jim Holmgren

Manager of Server Engineering

XLHealth Corporation

The Warehouse at Camden Yards

351 West Camden Street, Suite 100

Baltimore, MD 21201 

410.625.2200 (main)

443.524.8573 (direct)

443-506.2400 (cell)

www.xlhealth.com

 

 

 

From: helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Monitoring Software

 

Hello

 

We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring.

 

We are not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the
box ? 

 

or 

 

any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be
enterprise level ?

 

Central Data center + local site offices too..

 

Monitoring services for example:

 

1. Exchange 2010

2. SQL monitoring.

3. Windows 2008 R2

4. Vmware 4.x

5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500.

6. Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and
prepare web graphs (mrtg like )

7. Web services..

8. 

 

Some concerns:

---

1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly
the better. :)

 

 

 

 

cheers

 

John 

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