| few options here
1. GroundWork Monitor is brainlessly easy to use and setup. - vmware options as well. 2. Zenoss - if you want I can give you a vps running this to test it on ... we have an image setup. 3. cacti is nice - but... takes a while to setup unless you know what your doing
Glenn
On Nov 30, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Jim Smith wrote: I've setup cactus in the past and I've found it pretty good.
http://www.cacti.net/
If you turn on SNMP, it'll also monitor windows boxes as well. I'll be honest with you, however, I found it took a whilte to configure and to get it right.
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote: Casey Bralla wrote:
> I need to install some network monitoring software. I don't need anything
> too sophisticated; just monitoring of publicly available data such a
> presence/absence of key services such as ssh, ping return, IMAP, Web server,
> etc.
I've been all over this, trying out everything I could get my hands on.
The biggest help has been that a few of them come as virtual
appliances. Check out vmware.com and look at their selection of appliances.
I have had a ton of success with freeware called The Dude. It's
primarily Win but they claim it runs on linux (haven't tried but it
probably will).
http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php
This program is heads above many commercial packages costing $$$. It
will discover, map, graph, snmp, ping, alert, and make pancakes. I have
it watching my network for up/down status and it calls me when
something's down.
MRTG is great for producing graphs of results (snmp helpful). There's
another one by the same author (PRTG?) that does a bit more.
Good luck and let us know what works and doesn't.
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