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What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
is there a free, open source server monitoring tool like Nagios that runs on the MS stack? It will need to be able to detect service stoppages and starts also.
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closed as exact duplicate by Zypher♦ Oct 3 '11 at 16:44
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Polymon is exactly what you're looking for. polymon.codeplex.com It's fantastic for monitoring anything that can be communicated by TCP Port, SNMP, Powershell, WMI, SQL, HTTP, Perfmon, or Ping. I don't monitor anything *nix, so I can't speak to that. But for the Windows world it's very simple to set up, extremely intuitive, and extremely flexible, It has very nice built-in dashboard display, sms or email notification. You can do long-term trending/reporting/graphing, auto respond to events (like restart a service if it stops, etc.) And at least for me, it's a lot easier to set up and maintain than Nagios, OpenNMS, or Zabbix. I heartily recommend it. | |||||||||
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ZenossZenoss will monitor Windows services too. It's open-source. Easy to configure and has a bunch of capabilities for monitoring and reporting. | |||
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OpenNMS & Hyperic both work on Windows and are open source. Hyperic has a for money option but the basic offering is open source and free. Both are Java based. | |||
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Nagios works with MS servers quite well, by installing a service called pNSClient. It allows monitoring of services, processes, diskspace, cpu, and all sorts of system counters. We have a network split about 50/50 between linux/windows servers, and use Nagios to monitor it all. | |||
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SpiceworksSpiceworks is a complete network management and monitoring, helpdesk, PC inventory and software reporting solution to manage everything IT in small and medium businesses. It's free. | |||
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Nagios can monitor process in memory (so services too) through snmp. So you don't have to install the nagios agent. | |||
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You could look at Cacti http://www.cacti.net/download_cacti.php It's more geared towards network graphing but has add-ons for alerting and thresholding. | |||
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you can also have a look at Zenoss. | |||
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Hyperic offers a pretty good solution. http://www.hyperic.com/products/open-source-systems-monitoring.html | |||
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You could also give Just for Fun (http://www.jffnms.org/) a try, we have used that to monitor quite a few different things over the years. It can be a bit tricky to get going but its powerful once its running | |||
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You may consider using Total Network monitor- it's free and easy to use with a very nice interface. It can monitor services, alert you via email or messages, log in event log and take actions when a service fails. There are also many other monitors- you do not need to install any agents. http://www.softinventive.com/products/total-network-monitor/ | |||
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ObserveIT has a free auditing tool that records & replay all user sessions on the servers- both for Windows & Unix. Monitors up to 5 servers. check here: www.observeit-sys.com | |||
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