What do you use to monitor your Windows environment? 1

[Hondy]

Is MS Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 worth it or are there better / more cost effective solutions?

Cheers

 

[bluelinenetworks]

Spiceworks is free and works pretty well.

I use that for some clients, working on getting my linux monitoring box all setup using Nagios and Cacti.

If you just want monitoring, I think the linux is the way to go, cacti has a lot of capabilities for SNMP and graphing, Nagios is a good up/down/alert service.

But if you dont want linux to monitor windows, give spiceworks a shot. it will alert you of events, drive space depleting, etc......its an ad paid for service that you can pay like $10 a month to get with no adds though.

 

[Hondy]

Hi blue

Well, its for a commercial environment, i have used Cacti but i'm after a really powerful tool in the SCOM 2007 league.

Any like that?

Cheers

 

[bluelinenetworks]

Not from me, I just go cheap

 

[58sniper]

You don't say how big the environment is. If it's under 30 servers and 500 workstations, look into System Center Essentials. If it's bigger, SCOM is a good solution, but can require several servers for implementation.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference

 

[Hondy]

58sniper - thanks, that just might be what I need. I'll look into it!