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by friscojw

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I am looking for a good Systems Management package. I've used HP Openview, worked a little with NetIQ, but I also don't want to break the bank. I have 2 scenerio's one is a 400 employee company and the other has 5 employees. My goal is to offer an affordable solution for management. An engineer or employeee is paged if a server goes down. I need to be proactive with the management. Any recommendations?

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by erikdr

Simple stuff like WhatsUp Gold will probably do the job. Just configure for polls every 5 minutes or so on the status of crucial server responses like DNS, HTTP, SMB etc. and page if the poll failes.
You can combine this with a few simple remote WMI scripts for other services which are not in the chosen simple event management tool, and try to plug these in onto the paging mechanism of the tool.

Hope this helps,

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by friscojw

I've worked with HP Openview and looked at NetIQ but can't get cost estimates. I do know both these products have a high cost (over 10K) and would like to research other options. My goal is to be alerted if a system fails, resources run low or diskspace becomes low

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