Re: Performance Monitoring Software

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:41:19PM -0400, Adam Savage wrote:
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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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