No worries cause your answer wasn't totally wrong :)
From my POV PRTG is nearly a 100% solution and you do not need much more tools to get an good view of your running inventory. Beside PRTG we're only running some tools for flow analysis, NetApp storage analysis, etc. In sum we're running <5 tools to monitor EVERYTHING (hardware, software, datacentre infra, etc).
Jürgen Jaritsch Head of Network & Infrastructure ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH Telefon: +43-5-0556-300 Telefax: +43-5-0556-500 E-Mail: jj@anexia.at Web: http://www.anexia.at Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601 -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Satchell [list@satchell.net] Received: Sonntag, 14 Juni 2015, 20:03 To: nanog@nanog.org [nanog@nanog.org] Subject: Re: Hardware monitoring Appreciate the amplification. Cunningham's Law: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer." On 06/14/2015 10:46 AM, Jürgen Jaritsch wrote:
This is a product designed for use on Windows only,
No. The monitoring itself requires windows as OS but only for the Mgmt service, DB service, etc. You do not need a client (like for Nagios/etc) to monitor other systems. You simply monitor devices via http (e.g. APIs, etc) or SNMP, etc. You can also integrate other coding languages (Perl, PHP, C++, etc) if you need something unsupported.
Jürgen Jaritsch Head of Network & Infrastructure
ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH
Telefon: +43-5-0556-300 Telefax: +43-5-0556-500
E-Mail: jj@anexia.at Web: http://www.anexia.at
Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Satchell [list@satchell.net] Received: Sonntag, 14 Juni 2015, 19:37 To: nanog@nanog.org [nanog@nanog.org] Subject: Re: Hardware monitoring
On 06/14/2015 10:23 AM, Jürgen Jaritsch wrote:
We're using PRTG from Paessler (http://www.paessler.com).
This is a product designed for use on Windows only, no mention of ports to other operating systems. For some people, this is fine. For others, who don't want to mess with Windows at all, it's a concern.
Looking at some of the product sheets, it looks boss at what it does. In particular, the "David Letterman" view is an interesting quick snapshot look at what is going on.