Currently have an older version of PRTG doing monitoring with modem for SMS paging etc, however its not been looked after we have over 1500 sensors paused, no one really checks it etc so it needs replacing/sorting.
I don't want to upgrade it in as a) its old b) the underlying hardware is out of support and we think has issues.
So an option would to build a new PRTG server on new hardware, would prefer a virtual solution but PRTG seems to prefer a physical option plus the advantage of a physical box is if the hypervisor stack goes down you get an alert.
So been looking at options, and of course what I want from a monitoring system is different to what hte apps team want.
From my side of infrastructure I want to know status of my VMware stacks, network switches, firewall, routers, SANS etc.
Apps would want to monitor
In order to address the lack of ownership of problems, want to be able to create emails based on alerts so if it was something on the App side would create an email to send into our ticket system for them to look at.
Did look at some previous suggestions but those were a year a go or so, things change.
We are a windows house, but we do have a couple of linux boxes for some bits so can use a Linux based option as well.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks
I don't want to upgrade it in as a) its old b) the underlying hardware is out of support and we think has issues.
So an option would to build a new PRTG server on new hardware, would prefer a virtual solution but PRTG seems to prefer a physical option plus the advantage of a physical box is if the hypervisor stack goes down you get an alert.
So been looking at options, and of course what I want from a monitoring system is different to what hte apps team want.
From my side of infrastructure I want to know status of my VMware stacks, network switches, firewall, routers, SANS etc.
Apps would want to monitor
- Disk space
- Services
- URL's
- Files (being present/absent/content)
- processe i.e. .exe files running
- SQL, ability to run queries on tables and report based on output
- Monitor scheduled tasks, success/fail
- Uptime
- Who's logged into servers
- IIS
- Oracle
- Event logs for specific entries
- URLs - returning specific values to prove they are up
In order to address the lack of ownership of problems, want to be able to create emails based on alerts so if it was something on the App side would create an email to send into our ticket system for them to look at.
Did look at some previous suggestions but those were a year a go or so, things change.
We are a windows house, but we do have a couple of linux boxes for some bits so can use a Linux based option as well.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks