OS, Hardware, Network - Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting

Fri Jun 27 17:56:22 UTC 2008

On 6/27/08, Adam Armstrong <lists at memetic.org> wrote:
>
> My personal opinion is that all of the FOSS NMS solutions are sorely
> disappointing, Observer included. It seems to be something that no one has
> quite gotten right yet!
>
> Adam.
>

Very true. One product (not OSS, somewhat pricey) we've had great luck with
is SolarWinds Netmonitor. I can install it and point it at all of our
equipment in under a couple of hours. When you want to monitor a server, you
just need an SNMP service running on it, point Netmonitor at the IP of the
box, and it'll ask you what you'd like to monitor (disk, CPU, memory, etc).
Works great with our Cisco and HP networking gear as well.

-brandon