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Re: Performance Monitoring Software
From: Steven Hollingsworth <steven () aznc com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:17:31 -0700
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:41:19PM -0400, Adam Savage wrote:
[snip] My new question is pertaining to performance monitoring software. Microsoft Operations Manager is a little to pricey for us I believe and was wondering if there is any other software out there that will do baseline performance monitoring of my servers.. They are all Windows 2000/2003 servers but it doesn't have to be a windows based utility. I've looked at HP's Performance Monitoring Pack that integrates with HPSIM but that's pricey also.
I'd recommend nagios [0] which has plenty of plugins that can monitor various windows components if installed [1]. Also there is the Monarch user interface [2] which has an open source version to manage the nagios server and control what hosts/services are being monitored. Nagios can be a bit unwieldy to get off the ground by itself. Groundwork Monarch makes the process much easier. (see bootable ISO || Vmware Image) You'll still have to get your hands dirty configuring the agents that are going to monitor the windows server, but the nagios app is solid and I've been happy with it for years. [0] - http://www.nagios.org/download/ [1] - http://www.nagiosexchange.org/ [2] - http://www.groundworkopensource.com/downloads/mon_download.html
Thanks! -Adam
HTH, ~ stevo
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- Performance Monitoring Software Adam Savage (Sep 28)
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- Re: Performance Monitoring Software Steven Hollingsworth (Sep 28)
- RE: Performance Monitoring Software Dan Denton (Sep 28)
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