Best Free Monitoring Software for multiple sites

[Diakatarnis]

Hi there,

I have a few servers scattered about the county and would like to have my server here (linux or sbs) to monitor the remote sites servers as well as computers & printers on those sites (if possible)

Is there any free software avaliable that will do this?

Many thanks

 

[Diakatarnis]

oh ive heard Nagios mentioned quite a few times but im unsure how it represents the remote sites / devices at those sites. Could anybody shed some light?

 

[Diakatarnis]

I've just deployed OpenNMS in house, i quite like it, it required very minimal configuration and basically keeps an eye on key services and hosts.

There are plenty of others though, a friend of mine is raving about PandoraFMS at the moment.

excellent, do either of them let you monitor several remote sites from the one main "server"? as in umm


hosts---site 1 ----------main server---------site 2 ------- hosts
hosts---site 3 ---------/

etc so i can look at 1 webpage and from it see which servers are on and on further inspection find out what hosts are working on those sites

(i think that all made sense :S)