Comment How about SolarWinds Orion? (Score 1) 342
This doesn't seem to have already be suggested, but we use SolarWinds Orion. Its cheaper than many of the big systems, such as HP OpenView - and much simpler to use and operate.
The basic Orion package, which you can get for $2000 for up to 100 servers, will pull the usual CPU/RAM/Disk/Network statistics via SNMP. Built in is a mapping engine, that allows you to take a network map, and drop active elements onto it for live interfaces and device information. In a NOC environment, you can show this on a screen and it'll even sound an alarm when a system Alert fires through the website.
You can then bolt on additional modules, such as their Application Performance Monitor. It has ready to use templates for common business applications, Exchange, Apache, IIS etc. You can also create your own mixing, SNMP, WMI and User Experience monitors. User Experience monitors for example allow you to actively poll HTTP/FTP/DNS/SMTP/IMAP/POP etc, services to ensure they are not only UP but responding as they should to requests.
For scaling, you can tack on Additional Pollers to spread polling load across them. You can also use hot-standby pollers to resume the work of a failed poller.
Just my 2 cents, and not a corporate plug - just a very content user!
The basic Orion package, which you can get for $2000 for up to 100 servers, will pull the usual CPU/RAM/Disk/Network statistics via SNMP. Built in is a mapping engine, that allows you to take a network map, and drop active elements onto it for live interfaces and device information. In a NOC environment, you can show this on a screen and it'll even sound an alarm when a system Alert fires through the website.
You can then bolt on additional modules, such as their Application Performance Monitor. It has ready to use templates for common business applications, Exchange, Apache, IIS etc. You can also create your own mixing, SNMP, WMI and User Experience monitors. User Experience monitors for example allow you to actively poll HTTP/FTP/DNS/SMTP/IMAP/POP etc, services to ensure they are not only UP but responding as they should to requests.
For scaling, you can tack on Additional Pollers to spread polling load across them. You can also use hot-standby pollers to resume the work of a failed poller.
Just my 2 cents, and not a corporate plug - just a very content user!
