We use Event Sentry here. It can be as detailed or as simple as you want it to, depending on what you want to monitor. We use What's Up for simple up/down monitoring and ES for disk usage, services, etc.
I'm not the resident expert on SE here, but if you want to forward any questions offline, we'll do our best to help you out. That's if you want to continue to use SE. J Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] From: paul chinnery [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: server monitoring I've been tasked to look into acquiring a software package that monitors servers. I only need to run it on 6 servers, at this time. It should be able to monitor various services and running apps. (The issue was prompted because the print spooler on one of our application servers stopped. This caused a doctor's orders to our Rehab Dept to not print out. He was not amused.) Right now I'm trying our Event Sentry but it's a bit clunky and hard to configure. (Perhaps trying to do too much.) I'm also looking at Solar Winds product and GFI's product. ________________________________ Hotmail(r) has ever-growing storage! Don't worry about storage limits. Check it out. <http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tu torial_Storage_062009> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
