Open-source/COTS Remote monitoring software?

Question

I'm looking for a piece of software (the freer the better!) that could be used to track the CPU/Memory changes on a remote system when I remotely startup a component, and have that software report back to the system I'm running from. The components being run remotely also communicate with components on my system, and if I could track the network status (message exchange rate, etc), that'd be great! Any suggestions? Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, Zenoss does want you want, and is extensible to an extent, with Zenpacks, and is free for Zenoss Core, but I might be mis-understanding your question. (?)

Josh

Answer 2

Blockquote I'm basically looking for a product that does two things: 1. monitors the health (ie. latency, bandwidth, etc.) of a DDS network cloud. 2. monitors the CPU/memory usage of a system Obviously, the second isn't a huge deal. Blockquote

Checkout Smokeping for #1: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/

Cheers

Answer 3

It's not open source, but is it COTS.
Maybe you could try IP Monitor?

Answer 4

Interesting. I'll definitely look into both of those. I'm quite new to this, so I'm not sure how prevalent DDS monitoring is. And really, I don't need anything highly fleshed out. I'll basically be taking the log/dump that is produced, and send it through the processes of the components I'm monitoring to analyze by a higher level program I've also built.