SNMP Monitoring

[Little_Crow]

I have been asked to put in requests for monies for projects in the next financial year.

As the newly 'promoted' server manager we are sorely missing a system to alert the team when something has gone wrong, not when the calls flood the helpdesk.

I am looking to monitor our 100 or so servers (Mostly HP with some IBM and Dell), Cisco core switches and WAN links.

I know from reading this forum, that there are a number of people who manage far more servers than I, so I am interested what people use/have used and your opinions.

regards,

Little_Crow

 

[Little_Crow]

We did have Openview on a PC quite some time ago (2-3 years), before I took this job, but it fell into disuse.
I had little to do with it, but it struck me as being hideously complicated for what you got out of it, but I'll take another look.

We are looking for a dashboard displaying a list of Servers\Switches with traffic lights indicating the status.
Then a click on the server to give you a more detailed view of it's status.

The plan is to have a nice big screen in the infrastructure team office, and another in the helpdesk for constant monitoring and early warning.


Thanks for all your suggestions so far.

 

[Little_Crow]

Tried out a few of the suggestions here, we've only given them a days test each:

Zenoss (Free) was OK, but to get a trial for the enterprise edition was a nightmare so immediately disqualified itself.

Systems Insight Manager was pretty good.

Castlerock: looks like a very powerful product, but poor dashboard.

We have also tried:

Opmanager: 2nd best so far, pretty dashboard for the helpdesk peeps and plenty of extra information available for the infrastructure team.

Whatsup gold: The best yet, excellent dashboard for showing up problems and lots of extra information available for identifying trends etc. Also the easiest to setup and configure.

We still have to try Solarwinds Orion, and then pick the best 2 for further in-depth testing.

Cheers for all your suggestions.