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Five free tools to ease network monitoring chores

By Jack Wallen

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Five free tools to ease network monitoring chores

Ganglia

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.

Five free tools to ease network monitoring chores

Nagios

Nagios

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

Five free tools to ease network monitoring chores

Zabbix

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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By Jack Wallen
Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic, The New Stack, and Linux New Media. He's covered a variety of topics for over twenty years and is an avid promoter of open source. For more news about Jack Wallen, visit his website jackwallen.