panorama9 or centrastage any users

[hargi]

Anybody use any of these?

I am having a little play about with them, they look useful and some of the monitoring is good and allows you to program some actions in the case of an alert and some let you deploy software.
However I don't know if the pricing is to much for what it really is?

I can use remote utilities to remote on to my servers at work for free, I can then use remote desktop to get on any pc from there. I'm happy using GPP to install software. The only real thing I'm missing is the monitoring and actions.

I'm only on site for part of the week so been proactive is a good thing. And its normally only one bit of software that causes a big problem that either calls for it restarting or worst case a server reboot. So maybe this is a bit overkill.

Or do people really want a fully managed service?

 

[hargi]

May I ask what you monitor with PRTG?

At the moment I'm employed to be on site 2.5 days a week on 2 different sites. Usually I get phonecalls when I'm not there that a certain bit of software has crashed and no one can log onto the network. I then remote in and restart it or restart the server and everythings fine. Would PRTG allow me to be a bit more proactive in this?

 

[hargi]

Thank you. I think I have done this wrong as i was just having a play with it. Have installed it on my work pc onsite and got some sensors going. However should I have installed this on my office pc and then used remote sensors to the work server.
Does that make sense?