Question about monitoring

[McQueen]

Hello All,

I currently system admin to 4 Solaris box, as there was only four boxes all the monitoring I did was just logging onto each box and check over the systems (message log disk space etc). But now we've been taken over by a new company and there system admin has left and now I has reasonability for 20 new boxes over 4 different locations. My question is do you guys have any suggestion of how to monitor all these servers (Without having to login to each one).

Thanks

 

[GunnarD]

I use nagios (

http://www.nagios.org/

) to monitor my servers.

Relative easy to setup and can check several parameters (disc, cpu, ram, load ......, look at availabel plugins).

 

[AnotherAlan]

We used to use Big Brother made by quest software, easy to setup and administer. Nice gui too. I'm not sure if this is licensed these days.

 

[McQueen]

Thanks Guy's i'll check them out

 

[djr111]

I use something called groundworks opensource.

It actually uses nagios as the monitoring system but has a nice web interface engine along with other goodies. It is easy to use. It is easy to setup clients to be monitored, nagios can be a little cumbersome if you use it Nagios by itself, At my last job we used nagios directly.

David