For external monitoring/alerting on most things except mail flow: https://www.maxfocus.com/ This tool is aimed at IT as a service kinds of shops, but will do exactly what you’re looking for, but may or may not be configurable enough depending on your needs. If an agent doesn’t check in their email system will sent you an email/text about a missed check-in.
For monitoring email flow functionality: http://mxalerts.com/ Both of those solutions are inexpensive. At %dayjob% we use Solarwinds and recently added MXAlerts, which – if you have Exchange on-premise – will alert you if you lose connectivity from the Internet to your Exchange servers, which may or may not be enough. Dave From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Brouwer Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 10:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] External monitoring? Greetings, I used to be part of the old Lyris/Sunbelt community, but I have been out of IT administration for several years. I was a PM in that time, and just recently came back to IT. A situation arose this weekend where I could use your advice. We use SolarWinds for network, server, and application monitoring, and it works very well for us. Our core switch went down this weekend, severing all external communications, so SolarWinds could not send alerts to external resources. Do you use any kind of remote external monitoring that would send an alert if communications go down? Thank you! Eric Attention: Information contained in this message and or attachments is intended only for the recipient(s) named above and may contain confidential and or privileged material that is protected under State or Federal law. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken on it is prohibited. If you believe you have received this email in error, please contact the sender, delete this email and destroy all copies.
