We currently use - http://www.systemswatch.com/ Numerous times their alerts have beat out our notifications without false alarms. Also, as the reason one purchases such a service, its a backup for our own monitoring. We also use Keynote as thats what our customers are used to, and also subscribe to. This allows us to se what they see should we need to discuss SLA's. Systems Watch is much cheaper than Keynote for those that have actually priced out, or subscribe to the service. All in all, when I get an alert from Systems Watch, I do make way to a console more than I would with my own monitoring. Happy trails, Eddy On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell Hyde" Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:02 AM Subject: 3rd party network monitoring [snip]
Can anybody recommend a vendor for this type of service? I suppose I could always just get a bunch of VPS accounts here and there and run smokeping, but I'd really like to avoid that. - Darrell
Fwiw, http://www.dslreports.com/schedule has a 'Business' monitoring service (w/graphs) for a buck a week.
--Michael