27 Jun
2008
27 Jun
'08
1:56 p.m.
On 6/27/08, Adam Armstrong <lists@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