Nagios is a great utility! I absolutely love it. That said, if you're looking for something else that's free and Win based and doesn't need to be too complex, why not use Performance Monitor? It's installed on every server you've got already, has all of the performance metrics you'd really need and still lets you configure thresholds, generate email, etc. I wouldn't recommend running it on your web servers, but if you have a file server or something running non-processor intensive applications, you could configure a single machine to monitor all of your servers.
You can find more info here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q143185/ >http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn131&extID=1002287 > >Nothing like IPMonitor et al, but its free. I used it with a hosted >CF server dedicated to the task for about a year, and have run it off >a home dsl connection (I have an extra CF server license I'm not >using) for maybe two more since. > >Monitors smtp, pop, http, https, cf and db, although generally all I >do is smtp, pop and a single combined test that scans a cfml page that >has a touch of query output on it to do a combined test of cf/db/http. > >-- >--Matt Robertson-- >President, Janitor >MSB Designs, Inc. >mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184063 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
