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Nikumba

Nikumba

Nikumba

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We currently using OpManager from Manage Engine and its not bad, cheap, but a bit unwieldy when it comes to monitoring of systems.

So we are looking for something simple that will basically show a webpage with servers in one column then others for CPU, RAM, HDD, Specific Service, Is it up etc

Is there anything out there that is free/very cheap that will do this, but will require little messing about with to get up and running?

Cheers

Kimbie
 
How many servers? We use PRTG for our monitoring system and that will do a web page showing sensor status. Our wallboard (55" TV) runs a .Net app I've written which shows sensors (red for down, orange for warning etc)
 
Free and little messing around doesn't really go together too well. WhatsUP Gold is very good but it costs money (not a huge amount though). Icinga is also very powerful but will require some work to get set up.
 
Nagios but that's not no messing about. NewRelic will do that on their free plan,but you might get addicted and want to upgrade. Can get expensive.
 
Currently looking at Zenoss, we are a MS house so will have a look Ops Manger, I think I have just installed the R2 version of that.

We use New Relic with our web servers, but we are in the process of getting rid of it

Solarwinds is horrifically expensive for what it is
 
Nikumba said:
We currently using OpManager from Manage Engine and its not bad, cheap, but a bit unwieldy when it comes to monitoring of systems.

So we are looking for something simple that will basically show a webpage with servers in one column then others for CPU, RAM, HDD, Specific Service, Is it up etc

Is there anything out there that is free/very cheap that will do this, but will require little messing about with to get up and running?

Cheers

Kimbie
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I have written a small vbvscript to do exactly this. We have a farm of 40 Citrix servers and I wanted a quick snapshot of what the server is doing and and what services are running and is the RDP and ICA port listening. The Vbscript writes it to a back end SQL database and a simple ASP.NET web page displays the information.

The script also emails alerts when a server has a problem.

If interested I could tweak the script for your needs.

This is what the page looks like

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Nikumba said:
jfish - If you could that would be awesome
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can do please send your email in a pm so I can send the code and instructions on the sql database schema .. if you let me know what your requirements are

The script is called from a batch file, which read a list of servers from a text file you want to monitor and passes the server names to a vbscript. A CSV file is also written incase you want to generate graphs in Excel with server usage and all that.
 
jfish said:
can do please send your email in a pm so I can send the code and instructions on the sql database schema .. if you let me know what your requirements are

The script is called from a batch file, which read a list of servers from a text file you want to monitor and passes the server names to a vbscript. A CSV file is also written incase you want to generate graphs in Excel with server usage and all that.
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We do not have pm's here you will need to set your Trust up
 
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