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2010-04-21 Thread Martin Blackstone
...@thinkpath.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [SPAM] - RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses Completely Understand - Yes; cost is still high. -Original Message- From

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2010-04-20 Thread Stringham, Steven
+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

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2010-04-20 Thread kstephenson04
...@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

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2010-04-20 Thread Kurt Buff
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

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2010-04-20 Thread kstephenson04
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

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2010-04-20 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Subject: [SPAM] - RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses 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

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2010-04-20 Thread Neil Standley
[mailto:kstephenso...@thinkpath.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? Completely Understand - Yes; cost is still high. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday

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2010-04-19 Thread Joseph Heaton
Sorry for the late response, but I was on Furlough Friday on Friday, so didn't get a chance to respond. I saw only a brief mention of the company name, but we use Orion here, from Solarwinds. Great product, lots of in-depth reporting. One note, though... you're going to have setup times, and

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2010-04-16 Thread Michael Leone
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

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2010-04-16 Thread Cameron
Have a look at Nagios. www.nagios.org Sounds like it will do a lot of what you are looking for and the best parttis free! Cheers, Cameron On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: I'm investigating server monitoring solutions for my enterprise. What I'm

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2010-04-16 Thread James Rankin
System Center Operations Manager 2007 is what we use here - it has the capability to monitor ESX hosts and other .nix boxes as well as Windows servers (although getting the Unix stuff into the console is a bit of a fight, as I found out last week). It's only drawback from your point of view is

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2010-04-16 Thread Michael Leone
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:11 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: System Center Operations Manager 2007 is what we use here - it has the capability to monitor ESX hosts and other .nix boxes as well as Windows servers (although getting the Unix stuff into the console is a bit of a

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2010-04-16 Thread Michael Leone
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 parttis free! And very complicated, from what I was able to gather. :-) I also looked into the free version

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2010-04-16 Thread John Aldrich
: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 parttis free

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2010-04-16 Thread Mayo, Bill
16, 2010 9:22 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 parttis

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2010-04-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
://TheEssentialExchange.com From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server monitoring solution recommendations? System Center Operations Manager 2007 is what we use here - it has the capability to monitor ESX hosts

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2010-04-16 Thread Jay Dale
the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? If you want free and easy and does 95% - look at Polymon

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2010-04-16 Thread John Aldrich
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? +1 on Nagios. I'm not a Linux person by any stretch, but there's a ton of references out there that helps with the setup of Nagios, and it's free. It took about a week to get everything the way I wanted

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2010-04-16 Thread Jay Dale
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? AFAIK, isn't there a Windows version of Nagios? Not that I'm a Linux doubter (I *run* Fedora at home on my personal machine! :)) but not everyone here is comfortable running Linux. :) [cid:image001.jpg

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2010-04-16 Thread John Aldrich
Ahh. my bad. I thought I'd read somewhere that there was a way to make it run in Windows. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 10:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? There's

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2010-04-16 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
16, 2010 9:12 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? AFAIK, isn’t there a Windows version of Nagios? Not that I’m a Linux doubter (I **run** Fedora at home on my personal machine! J) but not everyone here is comfortable running Linux. J

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2010-04-16 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
it run in Windows. [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] *From:* Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2010 10:13 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? There’s not a Windows version of Nagios, however

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2010-04-16 Thread Jacob
, April 16, 2010 6:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? You could look at What's Up and see how you like it. I used it at a couple different places. Not sure how well it handles virtual servers, but it's pretty good on monitoring interfaces, etc

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2010-04-16 Thread Brian Desmond
] 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

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2010-04-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
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

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2010-04-16 Thread David Lum
: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? +1 on Nagios. I'm not a Linux person by any stretch, but there's a ton of references out there that helps with the setup of Nagios, and it's free. It took about a week to get everything the way I wanted it, but it's working good now - email

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2010-04-16 Thread Jay Dale
[mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server monitoring solution recommendations? See...something taking a WEEK to set up is too damn long, unless by week you mean a couple hours a day for a week. Host Monitor (www.ks

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2010-04-16 Thread Michael Leone
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:54 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: We use Groundworks/Nagios here, and I know each time we’ve changed the person who manages administering it (add/changes tests, etc) they go through extended PITA moments. I'm trying out Groundworks/Nagios now, using a VM

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2010-04-16 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:24, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:54 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: We use Groundworks/Nagios here, and I know each time we’ve changed the person who manages administering it (add/changes tests, etc) they go through