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Thanks for the link. I learn more about various products and utilities here than I do anywhere else.

I will read up on the features. This stuff is vital in a conscious analysis and threat prevention approach. :)

That's a great product, I've used it with up to 43 Servers.........The automation and reporting alone is worth the cost.

In the larger farms we go with HP Openview and MOM (MS Operations Manager).

Have a good one, DAFE2

Is it per node or a one shot software price?

They have an 'enterprise' program.....so I'ask them for a quote.

interesting link. :-)


but why ether & snort , what does he want to monitor - the packet traffic going to and from server? there will be a lot of it.

what you want to focus on is setting up the server OS to log properly exactly what you want it to log, and monitoring those server logs constantly. a good thing to do is have the thing email you any problem logs as they occur.

That wasn't me........I don't use Ethereal or Snort (Actually, if I find them on my networks I delete them :-))

I only use three tools in OPS:

Monitor Magic for less than 50 Servers

Microsoft Operations Manager and HP OPenview for any larger than that.

Alltough I found the name of MM a little 'tacky' it's proven to be one **** of a solid product and has saved my a.ss a few time with alerts and alert escalation.

It DOES require effort to setup properly, but it's well worth it. For $700 ca it's money well spent.

Are you saying that we should create baselines and monitor the resources locally or remotely? How about we use the Network Performance Monitor itself?

MM uses Performance Monitor Objects/Counters etc.. to collect data.

The advantage is to graphically display results in more 'meaningful' ways to the non-tech crowd when you want to fund a new project :-)