Which monitoring solution do you use?

How far does it let you go with citrix drive redirection? Ideally we want to be able to only allow approved devices, encrypt the ones that are approved and audit what is going on...
 
iaind said:
How far does it let you go with citrix drive redirection? Ideally we want to be able to only allow approved devices, encrypt the ones that are approved and audit what is going on...
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We sold a solution which does exactly that. Would be happy to fill you in on more details if needed.
 
Yes please! I've been struggling, every solution I look at either doesnt support citrix or not all the functionality is available.... As we're 100% citrix based its quite important!
 
If nobody minds me asking, does anyone know of some nice, simple, opensource or free solutions for systems monitoring?

I'm tying to get the Powers That Be to let me put Kaseya on my network [60Pcs, couple of servers, but a pain to admin by hand as I am doing at the moment, without AD....for now..] but something free/cheap and simple would be a great help.

Mainly looking to monitor my gateway [which is also my modem controller - it's a Draytek 2910 with a pair fo Draytek 110 PPPoE modems load balanced], my ESXi box, my two dev workstations, a couple of other file servers and half a dozen important machines.

It's a mixed Linux/Mostly XP environment if that helps.

Cheers in advance.
 
Good thread, as ours is a bit of a mess at the moment.

HP Insight for servers
Citrix CMC for Citrix servers
VisionCore Foglight for VM servers
And then just lots of emails going back and forth, would like to put them all into one application ideally !
 
Am I the only one using Compuware then!?

Also, what sort of information does Citrix CMC actually give you?

Cheers,

B.
 
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We have just purchased OpManager, after testing a fair few other solutions from a thread very similar to this one.

So far, so good, had a couple of minor issues with the interface and a problem with a MIB, that has been e-mailed to them today, will let you know if it turns into a horrific support experience.
 
ethos said:
Never heard of Zabbix, how are you finding it?

I've dabbled with Nagios a few times, only issue I have is- it's a pain to setup (imo).
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Zabbix is a bit of a pain to setup as well :)

it's extremely powerful for reporting data and graphs and statistics and all sorts. Some well nifty interactive reporting tools, at times doens't feel like a web app. But some problems getting the client software installed on some machines, but we have it monitoring some linux servers and some win2k3 and win2k machines. We are still setting up all the reports and alerts and everything, it's very comprehensive.

running it in a vm and it's constantly hitting our mysql server, but nothing that anything can't handle.

To be fair though, I haven't used it as much as my colleague who is mainly dealing with it..

if you just google for nagios zabbix there's tons of discussion on the one versus the other. Here's a wiki article for starters for anyones information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems
 
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Thanks WhiteCrook, might take a look at it today if I get time :)

I'll probably stick it in a VM on ubuntu server and have a play too... that's how I have MRTG setup at the moment- works a charm.
 
I've been heavily involved in rolling out a product called N-able, it's designed for MSP's and suits us well.

We trialed Kaseya (a lot of cofiguration needed), LANDesk (not designed for us really and way ott). We found that N-able works really well though! Monitoring around 200 customers.
 
StevenRaith said:
If nobody minds me asking, does anyone know of some nice, simple, opensource or free solutions for systems monitoring?

I'm tying to get the Powers That Be to let me put Kaseya on my network [60Pcs, couple of servers, but a pain to admin by hand as I am doing at the moment, without AD....for now..] but something free/cheap and simple would be a great help.

Mainly looking to monitor my gateway [which is also my modem controller - it's a Draytek 2910 with a pair fo Draytek 110 PPPoE modems load balanced], my ESXi box, my two dev workstations, a couple of other file servers and half a dozen important machines.

It's a mixed Linux/Mostly XP environment if that helps.

Cheers in advance.
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Nagios, its free and not hard to get working imo, assuming basic Linux skills and you are happy to tinker with text conf files.
 
Stolly said:
Nagios, its free and not hard to get working imo, assuming basic Linux skills and you are happy to tinker with text conf files.
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But what level of visibility does it give you? Componant availability info or end to end service availability and perfmon?

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Basher said:
But what level of visibility does it give you? Componant availability info or end to end service availability and perfmon?

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depends how you configure the host and service checks and how creative you can get ;)

a small list of what ours does:
  • checking a host is "ping-able"
  • automatically logging into our applications and performing specific tests within timeframes and depending on the results do certain things.
  • we also have it automated to run a once a week performing bandwidth tests
  • server room temperatures
  • the usual, diskspace, CPU usages, event log checks,perf counters etc
  • check for changes to public facing web code

at the end of the day with a bit of creativity it'll do anything you want it to
 
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