Hello guys, Trying to find some softwares to use. Theory is - I am building a load of mITX boxes (currently built 1 - for testing), we want to put these boxes in our customers networks and have them talk back to a central computer we will have here in the office. Ipmonitor does this but it is extremely expensive. I am hoping to be able to run some kind of Linux on this box, as the whole project will become too expensive if we have to start getting a license for each of these boxes. Have also been looking at nagios - anyone used this before? can it be run from Linux? If anyone has any suggestions that would be great.
Nagios runs on Linux & would do network monitoring for you using agents & SNMP. We opted to use Kaseya in the end. It wasn't cheap but worked a lot better for what we needed.
well unfortunately, I think for the immediate future cheap is the name of the game. Its only a "test" service at the moment, but eventually we want to charge for the service and be more proactive for our customers. I will have a look at kaseya. Do you know how good nagios is for multi sites? I mean, viewing the information, ultimately down the line it would be nice if we could have a peep at all of our networks fairly easily and in one place. The most important features to start with are: service monitor port monitor disk space monitor
Nagios can relay information from local collecting stations back to a master system for monitoring etc. If you want fairly cheap monitoring then look at GFIMAX. It's a per agent license so isn't too bad & has a 15 day free trial. Kaseya cost us over £165000 so you may need to start off with something like GFIMAX then build up to it.
I went for a Nagios fork called Icinga - using check_mk because of its amazing integration and multisite/livestatus backend - today finished designing my system, got it up and running, have a multisite distributed monitoring system with a master server at work in the office, now working on building mini-itx systems to put on site to monitor servers and network infrastructure. Only got it properly working this evening, learnt absolutely loads over the last 2 months I have been working on it. A little bit over the moon I have got it working, happy I can roll it out now to clients and be a bit more proactive with their sites. been documenting it all quite heavily, will link to my blog when its all up
