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Software to monitor server status


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Hi there,

 

I'm looking for some sort of software that would enable me to check the status of a few servers in a lan environment. Basically, i would like to know disk space, ram and cpu usage, if a few services are up, that sort of thing. Free would be great, but it's not mandatory. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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Have been using PulseWay (formerly PCMonitor) with good results. The daemon runs on Windows, OSX or *Nix, has monitoring apps for WP, Android and iOS, monitors pretty much everything and you can tell it what specifically to keep an eye on service wise. Can send notifications when certain conditions are met. Remote administration is available including updates (on Windows or *Nix anyway, not sure on OSX), remote shutdown/reboot/etc, log viewing, service management, all that stuff. Been subscribing for a while now, but there's a free package available too, up to 5 systems monitored via two mobile devices.

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https://meraki.cisco.com/products/systems-manager was mentioned the other day, and while its more deigned to manage mobile devices. You can add servers\pc and get info, etc.. Not sure if will do alerting other than if client goes offline for specific amount of time.

But you can get info about storage, cpu, etc.. Its free!

Doesn't have any linux love, but looks interesting for a free product.

Are you wanting something hosted for you - or can you roll your own? I like observium for keeping an eye on stats for routers/switches and sure even servers, etc..

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Not sure if they have enabled alerting in the free version, but the paid version is only like $100 a year.

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OP, how many systems total would you like to monitor? Pulseway is HIGHLY configurable and free for 5 devices. Worth the money honestly though, I also use GFI Network Server Monitor to monitor outages.

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OP, how many systems total would you like to monitor? Pulseway is HIGHLY configurable and free for 5 devices. Worth the money honestly though, I also use GFI Network Server Monitor to monitor outages.

 

4 physical and 5 virtual. 

 

Spiceworks is what i'm using at the moment, but i could never set it up correctly and it always seemed overkill for what i want.

 

I'm going to try the trial version of Pulseway.

 

I also had some sucess with a freeware app called total network monitor, but it doesn't have all the features i need.

 

Thank you all.

 

Edit: GFI Network Server no longer exists, i believe it's now called GFI Events manager ?

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Check out PRTG, free for 30 individual sensors, enough for about 4 or 5 servers. I use it for my home lab but also commercially at work. Nice and easy and a great app available for remote checking as well.

http://www.paessler.com/prtg

 

 

I<3 PRTG. awesome network monitoring solution... very solid.

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PRTG, Spiceworks, Observium, Cacti.. so many of them for every little function you can imagine.

 

Currently i'm using a combination of some of above for different needs. In your case i recommend Spiceworks since it's free, pretty easy to install, setup and go; it has mail alerts, reporting and with ease you can find many things in your network that you didn't even know (it has AlienVault and MaaS360 preinstalled - those are paid services but with Spiceworks you can access them with some features enabled, just to get you started).

 

Also i've used Level Platforms in the past; while good they have been bought by AVG so i don't know their current state :)

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Lansweeper is what we use at work. Works great for keeping up what all the machines are configured with on hardware/software/drivers, PC names, IPs, if they're online or offline, which user uses them, their disk statuses, event logs, etc.  Easy to update, manage, run reports, etc.

 

We probably could use some other tools as well, but we've got other projects we're fighting for lol.

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You can try Cacti which is quite solid now and has some good pluggins. 

 

If you want to move to a more granular level then Splunk or my current favourite Graylog2 might not give you the upfront processor info but can be used to create some great logging alerts.

 

Also have a look at Webmin if you want to do updates and basic work over the web.

 

All free and mostly easy to install.

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Check out PRTG, free for 30 individual sensors, enough for about 4 or 5 servers. I use it for my home lab but also commercially at work. Nice and easy and a great app available for remote checking as well.

http://www.paessler.com/prtg

 

Second that, we use it to monitor 1000s of devices and servers. Really great tool! A lot of ISPs and Data Centres use it too. :)

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https://meraki.cisco.com/products/systems-manager was mentioned the other day, and while its more deigned to manage mobile devices. You can add servers\pc and get info, etc.. Not sure if will do alerting other than if client goes offline for specific amount of time.

But you can get info about storage, cpu, etc.. Its free!

Doesn't have any linux love, but looks interesting for a free product.

Are you wanting something hosted for you - or can you roll your own? I like observium for keeping an eye on stats for routers/switches and sure even servers, etc..

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Not sure if they have enabled alerting in the free version, but the paid version is only like $100 a year.

+1 For Meraki SM.

Easy GP deployment for workstations too + inbuilt remote control

It will alert on online/offline status for machines you choose, but not on low disk/service failures etc.

Amazing product, and when you're done with that look at their cloud-managed switches/APs - some cool stuff there

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