Hey boys n girls,

I'm looking for a product that will monitor remote IP's and ports and report/notify if there is a failure. Now its on a pretty large scale (bout 100 sites) and wondering what software people use. Dont really need the full on bits and pieces of say zabbix or hyperic but something with a bit of info. Currently i'm using advanced host monitor, which is quite good, just wonderred if there was anything better out there.

Cheers

What's Up Gold

Check out Nagios

Nagios is the only way to fly.

nagios

Nagios

Nagios

And if you want pretty graphs, use Cacti and if you want inventory management have a look at ZenOSS.. Although I haven't rolled out ZenoSS yet it looks pretty promising - except for all the f***in addons and extra stuff you need to monitor Windows boxes.

I use Hound-Dog, we have it on about 200 servers accross 150 or so sites.

It does server monitoring, auditing, reporting, alerting, etc.

I use opmanager. Does pretty much everything you will ever want. Windows, Lunix, Cisco, 3com, checkpoint, url, blah blah, in one package.

only costs $795 USD too. http://www.opmanager.com

last edited by Crusher at 18:23:57 15/Oct/06

hi crusher

cacti is a good opensource alternative without the configuration crap of nagios.
check it out http://www.cacti.net

cacti pwns

used to use whats up gold at my old work.

Cacti just does graphing - you can add in things like threshold monitoring and the availability checking plugins, but I'd rather use Nagios or something designed to do that task before using Cacti.

Oh and Crushles!@%

used to use "hi crusher" at my old work too

Nagios

i tried using "hi crusher" a few times but it was pretty s*** so i deleted it

also ticman is a dirty filthy whore who loves goats and ass and dongs and ass and goats and goats and jim.

in that order

You are wrong, Jim is now ahead of the second goat