![]() As for your linux servers, there are some SCOM partners providing monitoring solutions, though I'm not well versed in them. SCE/SCOM monitor the MS infrastructure stuff better than pretty much any other product (I'm biased, I know - View image here: - )SCE has some (relatively basic) built in network monitoring stuff, and SCOM will have network monitoring in the next version (based on EMC Smarts). Well, since you're pretty MS heavy, you may want to consider System Center Essentials (maxes out at 30 servers, 500 or so clients), or if you have big expansion plans, System Center Operations Manager. The usually Microsoft stuff (DCs, Exchange, SQL Server), a few Windows apps, and the rest is all Linux. Lee Chang: About 20 servers, 6 switches, firewall, etc. Nagios as a kind of reluctant backup, and the others don't really incite much interest in me at all. 0 doesn't support some useful features such as avoiding multiple alerts -1 community seems dead - sparse wiki, quiet mailing lists, forum with posts asking if anything's going onMRTG: +1 Seems good at what it does (sensor collections -> graphs) 0 Doesn't do much else - not what I'm looking forI think Zenoss looks like one I'd want to play with (and there's a vmware image to download and try), and Zabbix as a maybe. Rough feelings so far:Nagios ( ) : +1 been around for ages +1 popular, used a lot and well respected -0 messy and disorganized -1 big and feared for its complexity -1 uglyZenoss ( ): +1 Nice web interface +1 appears a bustling community +0 Nagios plugin support +0 been around a reasonable time -1 complex interface, steep learning curve -1 rumours of complex installHyperic ( ): +0 Rumoured to be powerful (fast event processing and very scalable) -0 screenshots look a bit bland -1 Website is offputtingly corporate rather than involvingOpenNMS ( ): +0 Usable looking interface -1 Sounds a bit of a recent, early development -1 Properly Fugly website -1 XML Config filesOpsView ( ): Wrapper around Nagios +0 based on Nagios -0 based on Nagios +1 slightly better looking interface -1 Read a blog comment about it having odd limitations with Nagios plugins and other off-putting problemsZabbix ( ): +1 seems technically kind of nice, agented or agentless, can step through websites in testing, agents can run scripts +1 interface customization +0 interface looks quite tidy, supports diagrams, but people discuss it as if it was a poor interface. In case it's of any interest, I've just been reading up on (free) network monitoring software wondering which to try. ![]()
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