Greetings everyone! We're currently looking into monitoring solutions for our particular problem. We're a windows shop. Currently we're using a system called Next9, however there are a number of issues. Any new hardware needs to be implemented by their developers, at expense to us. Further their licensing is prohibitively expensive.
We currently have 40 customer sites, but are growing on average 1-2 sites a week. Our SLA stipulates that we have to monitor their equipment, but we are quickly becoming overwhelmed doing this manually. Our largest site deployments have Next9 implemented, the rest have to be checked by hand. Our most common issues are disks filling up, servers with general hardware issues (dead hard disk, etc - things that would be picked up by windows logs), servers not being up-to-date, etc. We would like to be able to monitor this automatically for all of our customer sites. Now, is there a way to do this in a centralized manner (ie a single server at our site)? For instance, suppose we have sites A through Z. If we receive an SNMP trap from site A and site Z at the same time, would the server at our site be able to tell that that trap originated from site A and not site Z? Our servers follow the same naming convention at every site. We would also like to monitor virus scanner status if possible. Internally we would like to be able to monitor all of our systems. Would we be able to monitor tape backup status? Like, a last run time, etc. This isn't incredibly necessary since we can tell by disk usage, but it would be very helpful. Would we be able to monitor things like pagefile size, etc? What requirements would the customer need to provide? Would they need to open up SNMP? Are there any other implementations like this, where you'd be aggregating data from numerous customer sites - not just from the same autonomous system? Any help you could provide would be very much appreciated. Thank you! We're also looking into Nagios and solar winds, however Nagi doesn't include automatic discovery, and solar winds is extremely expensive. -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=37993#37993 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
