Server monitoring

[dabossuk]

Hi

I am looking for some server monitoring tools, eg Ping server and if down to send out an alarm, (SMS, Email, IVR) etc. Ideally an application that runs on a dedictaed windows desktop, which keeps an eye on all servers in colocation centre. if pings fail, or random HTTP gets then alarm goes off. What do other people use for this? good freeware / opensource and or commerial recommends would be great!

Thanks

[Komakino[BE]]

  dabossuk said:

Hi

I am looking for some server monitoring tools, eg Ping server and if down to send out an alarm, (SMS, Email, IVR) etc.  Ideally an application that runs on a dedictaed windows desktop, which keeps an eye on all servers in colocation centre.  if pings fail, or random HTTP gets then alarm goes off.  What do other people use for this? good freeware / opensource and or commerial recommends would be great!

Thanks

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Have a look at Nagios/Netsaint, it runs on linux, and is GNU software. Works great!

[+BudMan MVC]

Nagios is a great tool, but since you were looking for something that will run on a windows desktop

Here are a few on the commerical side, off the top of my head

GFI Network Server Monitor http://www.gfi.com/nsm/

The whats up line from ipswitch - http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/network-management.html

IPcheck - http://www.paessler.com/ipcheck/?link=home1

Do you just want something to let you know when something doesn't ping - or are you looking for more? Nagios will give you more, there is also OpenNMS http://wiki.opennms.org/tiki-index.php or Percival http://percival.sourceforge.net/ or NetMRG http://www.netmrg.net/

The list can get really long - can you give some more details of EXACTLY what your looking for, is there a budget -- where does it fall FREE < $100 < $1k < $10K

On the low end you have something like what's up gold, on the high end your talking HP Openview, etc..

How many servers/hosts are you wanting to monitor, what types of services - Does it really "have" to run on windows? Some of these will, or could be made too, etc.. Do you just want notification if service does not respond - or would graphing of services, history type data be a plus?

[beacon]

In the middle on a windows platform:

Microsoft Operations Manager

http://www.microsoft.com/mom/default.mspx

[DS3]

To add one more to the list

IIRC their pricing was good to.

http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/index.asp

[+BudMan MVC]

  beacon said:

In the middle on a windows platform:

Microsoft Operations Manager

http://www.microsoft.com/mom/default.mspx

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In the middle of what??

MOM 2005 with 10 OMLs --> $6,099 US

Not that there is any thing wrong with MOM - but I am not sure I would place in the "middle" on price ;) Now if your under 10 servers to manage - not too bad, about $500 for the workgroup edition, etc..

[Marsden]

How about MOM Workgroup Edition? Good for 10 connections at a 10th of the price or less...

[dabossuk]

totally forgot I posted this and now today this issue came back onto my radar.

I have 6 servers all of which run a .net application. These servers also have connection to a third party service one of which is over HTTP XML-RPC and the other over a raw socket connection. At a first level I would just like to ping these servers from a remote PC and if they fail to send a message (email,sms,phone call). I would then like to be able to do a telnet check eg.

c:\telnet 123.123.123.123 1234

If that connects then OK if it fails to connect or timeout I need it to send a message.

The next step after that would be to run the telnet command with a script that if I do not get back the results I expect to set off an alarm.

Also monitoring eventlog, services etc would be good as well.

Other option would be to connect direct to the .NET applications and write some custom code - do any of these monitors support that ?

I have looked at ipmonitor.com and http://www.ipsentry.com/

Thanks for any help guys :-)