Five free tools to ease network monitoring chores

By Jack Wallen March 28, 2012, 1:09 AM PDT

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Five free tools to ease network monitoring chores

Ganglia

ntAnyone who employs server clusters should have Ganglia monitoring that system. Ganglia can scale to handle clusters with as many as 2,000 nodes.

Nagios

ntNagios includes a vast number of features. You can even set up email, SMS, and printed paper alerts!

Zabbix

ntZabbix is a powerful network monitoring tool that offers user-defined views, zooming, and mapping on its Web-based console. It also offers agent-less monitoring, collects nearly ANY kind of data you want to monitor, does availability and SLA reporting, and can monitor up to 10,000 devices.

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