Tools for monitoring/analysing computers/networks?

KGhaleonKGhaleon Member Posts: 1,346 ■■■■□□□□□□
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Just wondering if any of you ever worked in a data center or place where the machines were monitored closely for issues. Any close suggestions?

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  • Non-Profit TechieNon-Profit Techie Member Posts: 418 ■■□□□□□□□□
    check out microsofts SMS and MOM software
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  • royalroyal Member Posts: 3,352 ■■■■□□□□□□
    As Non-Profit Technie mentioned, SMS and MOM are great products. A new version of MOM just came out called System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007. Also, the Sysinternal tools are excellent tools for monitoring/troubleshooting/diagnostics/etc.. You can find these tools here
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  • SlowhandSlowhand Mod Posts: 5,161 Mod
    The type of software you're looking for is either Nagios or ipMonitor, which is now owned by SolarWinds. Both Nagios and ipMonitor are capable of monitoring CPU time, hard drive space, NIC usage, POP3 and SMTP ports, various services, they can both do pings at regular intervals to check for connectivity, check HTTP and HTTPS, etc. . .
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  • sprkymrksprkymrk Member Posts: 4,884 ■■■□□□□□□□
    If you have a linux box there is a free and very good utility called Nagios.

    http://nagios.org/

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  • MishraMishra Member Posts: 2,468 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Big Brother
    Nagios
    Adventnet
    Aprimsa's Spectrum
    IT Assistant
    Altiris
    IPMonitor
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    HP Open View
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  • KGhaleonKGhaleon Member Posts: 1,346 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Wow, that's a nice list to check. ipMonitor, MOM sound interesting...is Nagios only compatible with linux boxes? Still a good utility to try out later, especially for free.

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  • MishraMishra Member Posts: 2,468 ■■■■□□□□□□
    KGhaleon wrote:
    Wow, that's a nice list to check. ipMonitor, MOM sound interesting...is Nagios only compatible with linux boxes? Still a good utility to try out later, especially for free.

    KG

    Nagios is great and monitors almost anything.
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  • SlowhandSlowhand Mod Posts: 5,161 Mod
    KGhaleon wrote:
    Wow, that's a nice list to check. ipMonitor, MOM sound interesting...is Nagios only compatible with linux boxes? Still a good utility to try out later, especially for free.

    KG

    It will monitor every kind of box, be it Linux, Windows, Mac, whatever. . . the software just won't install on anything but Unix/Linux. According to their site, there'll be a Windows version coming. . . err. . . at some point.
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