RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-06 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
After poking around for several nagios installs and looking how it connects remotely we decided to go with Servers Alive newest version. It has a little agent that connects over any port with ssh, and then lets me do anything inside. The agents are 25 bucks, and the software was 400 dollars, but

RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread John Hornbuckle
: Monitoring Remotely Check out Nagios You can't beat the price! (free!). www.nagios.orghttp://www.nagios.org Cheers, Cameron From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: May-02-09 12:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Monitoring Remotely I have been using Servers Alive

RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Mayo, Bill
We use WhatsUp Gold. I believe it does all that you describe. From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: May-02-09 12:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Monitoring Remotely I have been using Servers Alive for a lot of my clients who I monitor their lan.

RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Cameron
Check out Nagios You can't beat the price! (free!). www.nagios.org Cheers, Cameron From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: May-02-09 12:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Monitoring Remotely I have been using Servers Alive for a lot of my

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Check out Nagios You can’t beat the price! (free!). If you have a Unix machine to run it… There are these things called Virtual Machines, you should check them out... ;-) FWIW, this Google search

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
I don't think you understood Shawn, I have two separate Nagios installations, on here on my internal network, and one at our colo facility. We do use service groups/host groups in those separate instances, but they are on two different servers in two different locations. I have the colo Nagios

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Shawn Everett
Haven't finished reading the rest of the thread... Sherry: Why not just set up seperate service/host groups for each client. I use client config directories with all the config for a given client stored in that directory. Separate websites are only needed if you want an easier screen to look at

RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread John Hornbuckle
[mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Monitoring Remotely On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Check out Nagios You can't beat the price! (free!). If you have a Unix machine to run

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
+1 for Nagios. And you can use just about any old server/workstation you have sitting around for linux, you could even use a virtual server for it if you needed to. We use Nagios for monitoring our internal network, numerous web-sites, vpn tunnels and a bunch of servers at our colo facility. We

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Finding a machine (physical or virtual) isn't the issue. The issue is that we're not a Unix shop. We have no Unix systems here, and no one has any experience with Unix. The point of the virtual

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-02 Thread Graeme Carstairs
We use hounddog. They provide a central hosted monitoring agents on client servers or desktops. Dashboard and email alerts etc , can config 5 10 or 15 min checks throughout the day. Plus seperate daily checks for av backup disk space etc. They are constantly adding new features like service start

RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-02 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
to relay alerts back to a central server. -Original Message- From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 4:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Monitoring Remotely We use hounddog. They provide a central hosted monitoring agents on client

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-02 Thread Graeme Carstairs
to a central server. -Original Message- From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 4:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Monitoring Remotely We use hounddog. They provide a central hosted monitoring agents on client servers or desktops