Server Monitoring

[RSi Dave]

What do people use, been using Cacti but seems a bit hit and miss.

Doesnt matter if free or costs money

 

[Daz]

Cacti rocks for monitoring network devices.

Mainly Windows servers? http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/operationsmanager/en/us/default.aspx

 

[KDF]

I use nagios.

Monitors Server status, Services, Disk usage/free space, CPU Load etc.

if there is a problem it sends me a txt message

 

[ChrisR]

Cacti rocks for monitoring network devices.

Mainly Windows servers? http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/operationsmanager/en/us/default.aspx

We use this, it's a bit of a beast.

 

[The Hoff]

Whats Up Gold v12 - Payware.

Zenoss - Freeware.

 

[Clart]

I use nagios.

Monitors Server status, Services, Disk usage/free space, CPU Load etc.

if there is a problem it sends me a txt message

yeah we use that too. We also have smoke, temp, humidity, ping and movement sensors. Quite annoying when it starts texting you at 4am though.

 

[ChrisR]

I use nagios.

Monitors Server status, Services, Disk usage/free space, CPU Load etc.

if there is a problem it sends me a txt message

yeah we use that too. We also have smoke, temp, humidity, ping and movement sensors. Quite annoying when it starts texting you at 4am though.

That's the one thing we're missing at the moment is environment monitoring stuff, after some AC failures over the past few months they need something in badly!

 

[RSi Dave]

Cacti rocks for monitoring network devices.

Mainly Windows servers? http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/operationsmanager/en/us/default.aspx

Yes mainly windows servers, ill have a look at this and the others mentioned. Regarding Cacti, we have it installed on a win2k server under IIS and it monitors win2k servers fine (only disk space and memory) however it doesnt monitor the win2k3 server, just says unknown device :S

Also some random missing bits from graphs where the poller doesnt seem to update.

 

[KDF]

I use nagios.

Monitors Server status, Services, Disk usage/free space, CPU Load etc.

if there is a problem it sends me a txt message

yeah we use that too. We also have smoke, temp, humidity, ping and movement sensors. Quite annoying when it starts texting you at 4am though.

Its easy to set up different methods of notification depending on the time of day... you can also set up event severity eg. not be notified of smaller failures until 8am or whenever.

Very flexible bit of software.

 

[The Hoff]

MOM is another tool we use, pretty useful. Visually though Zenoss is superb!

 

[Norris_309]

we use MOM on our servers which has always been fine. & just setting up CiscoWorks for the network.

Also have BTI room monitoring in our main server rooms, you can buy whatever sensors you need, we got door sensors, AC sensors so get alerts for those kinds of things.

 

[ChrisR]

Daz's link is the latest iteration of MOM isn't it? Rebranded System Centre Operations Manager now I think along with all the other stuff (i.e. SMS now System Centre Config Manager).

 

[dk]

we use HP SIM (systems insight manager) which is free with every HP server.

 

[The Hoff]

it is indeed Chris, didn't click the link but Ops Manager/MOM is the ticket. Hate all this rebranding b****cks!

 

[nosluom]

hoff do you know of any server monitoring software that will automatically log the free disk space of servers in a spreadsheet or something for you?

 

[The Hoff]

You can produce reports in Ops Manager to be exported in CSV format which is Excel friendly.

We get daily reports from MOM and Whats Up to email which detail storage usage, along with a live view on a 47" plasma above us.

 

[3K1N]

Nagios ftw!

 

[Woodentop]

Dont use CA products!

Microsoft SCOM is pretty good.