[AusNOG] Network Management and Tools

[Kym Kovan]

On 5/07/2010 5:46 PM, David Hughes wrote:
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>> I know it's not FOSS in any way, but has anyone considered PRTG ? (yes I know it's closed source, only runs on Windows and costs real $)
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> No problems with paying $'s for the right tool.  PRTG looks good but it's a bit limited for my purposes.   Great for WAN circuitry etc but how about linux box service monitoring and alerting?  Or even (gasp) WMI based Windows server monitoring.  All ugly stuff but important in their own place.

We have recently set it up for a new server farm of 40-odd VMware 
virtual machines, nearly all Win2008 plus a few linux/BSD boxes for load 
balancing and VPN gateways.

Push the right buttons in 2008's firewall and PRTG will pick up about 30 
WMI/services all on its own for a typical web application server, more 
than you need, and we were somewhat astonished when we pointed it at the 
vSphere server and told it to auto-discover just to see what it could do 
and it worked out for itself that this was a vSphere control server and 
gave us a complete map of all of the VMs and their workloads, etc. We 
didn't have to do a thing :-)

For a heavy Windows 2008 environment I would highly recommend PRTG.



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Yours,

Kym Kovan
mbcomms.net.au