Many of you for sure have lot's of servers to look after. I would like to know how you do this management.
I wonder if there is a tool where I can centralize all my server and check the Event viewer to checkt their status without having to get into all of them on by one.
Any tips, experience sharing?
By the way all servers are on Windows OS and One is on Linux Distro (not very important on this one)
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Since you are familiar with Linux
1st Apr 2010
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That could be a solution but I would like to have something running on a Win box. But thanks alot for your sharing!
Larbakium
4th Apr 2010
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Check This...
Check the following company they have many applications to manage & monitor everything you need.
http://www.manageengine.com/
http://www.manageengine.com/
Updated - 3rd Apr 2010
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Remote Desktop Connection
Would Remote Desktop Connection be good enough? That's what I use, but my network is small, 6 or so servers.
5th Apr 2010
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I have 15 servers and I still RDC. I do use visionapp's remote desktop product though to make the RDC sessions easier.
rkuhn@...
5th Apr 2010
I agree with RDP and I do use it now. But I have around 17 servers and majority are serving aplications. I wonder if there would be a way of checking the Events in centralized way.. So that you dont have to remote to all of them to check if their health is ok.
Larbakium
8th Apr 2010
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How many
servers are you supporting?
5th Apr 2010
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Around 17 including VM's
Larbakium
8th Apr 2010
Solarwinds has a suite of nice products, but they are expensive, but the Kiwi syslog viewer is free and does exactly what it is supposed to. I use it to monitor a number of devices.
Another tool you may want to look into is called the dude
http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php
Another tool you may want to look into is called the dude
http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php
mafergus@...
9th Apr 2010
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Spiceworks
I rely on spiceworks quite a bit - http://www.spiceworks.com/. Its a great software and its free.
I look after approx 120 servers so the inventory function on Spiceworks is useful as I have a lot of the information on spiceworks without having to connect to the server. Also great for things like monitoring drive space. I have set it to email me whenever a a drive has less than 10% free space. Lots of other great features.
I look after approx 120 servers so the inventory function on Spiceworks is useful as I have a lot of the information on spiceworks without having to connect to the server. Also great for things like monitoring drive space. I have set it to email me whenever a a drive has less than 10% free space. Lots of other great features.
6th Apr 2010
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I use ipswitch. Its not free but if your like me, i moniotr ram, cpus, hdd, and services.
I used spiceworks a while back and i found it good but always found it NOT able to do more. for instanse i wanted to monitor servies and it it detects a specific servies has failed, try to start it.
so i moved to ipswitch and they have been able to do all that i needed. i monitor about 600 servers.
I used spiceworks a while back and i found it good but always found it NOT able to do more. for instanse i wanted to monitor servies and it it detects a specific servies has failed, try to start it.
so i moved to ipswitch and they have been able to do all that i needed. i monitor about 600 servers.
dguilloryjr@...
6th Apr 2010
Thanks alot for the input. I will definetly try them out. Didnt had chance yet 
I do not have so many servers as you guys.. way far from that. I look after around 17 servers more and less.. and I thought it would be a pain to look at them one by one:P that is also because this is not my main function therefore the idea of having email alerts is very attractive.
I normally want to monitor services and Events
I do not have so many servers as you guys.. way far from that. I look after around 17 servers more and less.. and I thought it would be a pain to look at them one by one:P that is also because this is not my main function therefore the idea of having email alerts is very attractive.
I normally want to monitor services and Events
Larbakium
8th Apr 2010
I use Overseer.
Very affordable and super easy to use.
You can monitor up to 50 devices for only $50.
http://www.overseer-network-monitor.com
Very affordable and super easy to use.
You can monitor up to 50 devices for only $50.
http://www.overseer-network-monitor.com
rkuhn@...
9th Apr 2010
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Some suggestions.
You could use log parser to pull the required event logs to a central database on schedule and then generate html files from the resulting data centralising critical events to an Intranet page.
Log parser can output to a number of different formats and you are only limited by time and imagination.
Alternately you could create a custom MSC console that covers the servers you wish to manage if you want to do it with a gui for free.
I have not used this but it looks like it may do what you require.
http://www.splunk.com/
This may help as well.
http://4sysops.com/archives/eventsentry-light-centralized-real-time-event-log-monitoring/
Log parser can output to a number of different formats and you are only limited by time and imagination.
Alternately you could create a custom MSC console that covers the servers you wish to manage if you want to do it with a gui for free.
I have not used this but it looks like it may do what you require.
http://www.splunk.com/
This may help as well.
http://4sysops.com/archives/eventsentry-light-centralized-real-time-event-log-monitoring/
7th Apr 2010
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Thanks alot. I will looking into those tools.
Larbakium
8th Apr 2010
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We use rdp for server remote
management but for server event log, errors, warnings, hardware log, network logs we use EVENTSENTRY (http://www.eventsentry.com)
The good thing about this software is that it can be configured on Windows box with SQL server. It can gather log from linux servers, routers, switches, firewalls, and for sure windows servers.
The good thing about this software is that it can be configured on Windows box with SQL server. It can gather log from linux servers, routers, switches, firewalls, and for sure windows servers.
7th Apr 2010
