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by del smith

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Can anyone recommend a low cost network management software that can handle the basics like up/down status, check services, keep an eye on disk space and event logs, and can notify via e-mail when a system has gone done or exceeded a threshold? Familiar with the big guys like CA and Openview but way too much. Also love What'sUp Gold's features but $800 is a little pricey for this project. Looking at keeping the cost under $200. Can anyone make some recommendations? I will award points for any product that meets these criteria. Thanks so much in advance!

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by r. a. caluste

AnalogX offers excellent network utilities for FREE!; http://www.analogx.com (no spaces in the url) such as NetStat Live and PacketMon. Other network management functions such as event logs and disk space management, there are snap-ins that are available in windows 2000 that does exactly that.

by dmiles

See the following
1)www.looksmart.com/org/
2)www.robomon.com/
3)www5.overture.com/d/sr

by justinf

Servers Alive is the best monitoring software I have come across so far. It will monitor servers, services etc and page or email you via smtp or Exchange when something goes down.

by choppit

Some of these needs could be met by 3Com Network Supervisor and its free. This will certainly allow up/down status to be monitored and sends email/SMS alerts by threshold. It doesn't monitor services, disk space or logs though.

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