Anyone know of a simple and safe freeware/shareware utility I could use to periodically ping my servers automatically and then send me an email alert if one becomes un-reachable? Just something simple that could run on a desktop PC even. What's Up Gold is a good product but is $795 I think. Yes - simple, safe, and free would be good!!
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I was looking for this not too long ago for some 'smaller' jobs. There are all kinds of them out there, but none would give notifications.
We now use MonitorMagic and are extremely happy with the product.
It's highly customizable & alerts can be escalated if not responded to. You can also use it to (auto) restart hung services or restart servers depending on conditions.
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.
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Looking for "free" Server Monitoring utility