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What software do those of you that offer managed servers use for monitoring?Steven,We use a mixture of Nagios and IPcheck complimented by a few in-house scripts that check nearly every thinkable possible service 
Nagios (linux) is nice and there are some great web-based config tools out there if you are not farmiliar with the format.IPcheck (windows) is good to. Much easier to setup - but comes with a price tag.MattI just found JFFNMS and it seems interesting.Steven;http://www.ossim.net/ - More security related.MattHybodus and home made scripts.Mainly nagios, currently it operates seperate from all our other systems - but in near future we will be integrating. Works quite well for our needs, and if you run it on a MySQL backend makes it easy to make a frontend interface.Definitely Nagios. We also back that up with SiteUptime.com and our own little status script.
--TinaWe use ipMonitor (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ipmonitor.com">www.ipmonitor.com</a><!-- w -->). It costs some money, but works very nicely.+1 for Nagios. Great and handy tool.I use to use Nagios because it was free and a good piece of software but we are now trying out OpManager from Manage Engine and are quite impressed with it. You could check them out <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.manageengine.comI">http://www.manageengine.comI</a><!-- m --> too would recommend Nagios.. It allows you to plug in a numerous amount of modules and can be custom tailored to fit exactly what your looking for.if you just want a quick and easy utility to test any port, you can look at sysmon - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://sysmon.org/If">http://sysmon.org/If</a><!-- m --> you need to follow trends, though, nagios is a better solutionI am not an MSP, but I think Nagios is the best monitoring service around these days, its really good.you know - after looking over ipmonitor - it sort of looks like they utilize nagios in the background. look at their flash demostration and tell me if those pics dont resemble Nagios.Nagios is good if you're primarily on *nix platforms. We use a combination of Mercury SiteScope and Solarwinds Orion in house here. But we're a diverse mixed bag of various *nix flavors and Windows platforms, which puts Nagios at a disadvantage. -RogerWe Use IPCheck and PRTG Grapher from <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.paessler.com">www.paessler.com</a><!-- w -->. Very good software, allows you to monitor extensive parameters. Allows you to check actual webpages, test the email servers by sending/receiving sample email, query the database servers, generate reports, etc. The grapher allows you to see live and historical performance of your servers (CPU, Network, etc).
The best part of IPCheck is that it has a windows client. You can install this client on the workstations of your technical staff so they are alerted immediately on any issueshybodus do a pretty good job for usWe use Nagios. It has a nice web interface with many features.Cheers,BeruskaI wouldn't exactly say Nagios has a nice web interface but it has a ton of features!well what I found Nagios lacks in a pretty GUI is makes up in huge honking features. One neat thing I have Nagios doing right now is Paging my blackberry for critical events. Its save me some serious time on a few occasions.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bb4.org/">http://www.bb4.org/</a><!-- m -->
Customized to our needs, works well, has 100's of plugins, monitors what we need.
- John C.I have 2 monkeys (1 extra monkey for redundancy) tied up in the cage. When the little red lights stop flickering, they page me.But....doesn't GREEN mean all is well???
--TinaI think I'm going to have to discontinue using the (MMM) monkey monitoring method. Barry (the 2nd monkey) is currently in the midst of a steamy SMS relationship with another monkey, working in the Equinex datacenter.
I don't mind it so much, but Barry's clumsy fingers sometimes send his SMS messages accidently to me. I don't know about you, but it's no fun being woken up at 3:00am, with steamy SMS messages between 2 monkeys. :eek2:
Ok, I'll look at Nagios instead. :buck:I don't mind it so much, but Barry's clumsy fingers sometimes send his SMS messages accidently to me. I don't know about you, but it's no fun being woken up at 3:00am, with steamy SMS messages between 2 monkeys. :eek2:
One word, Bob....MonkeyCam.
I see a whole new business venture in your future!
--TinaI have 2 monkeys (1 extra monkey for redundancy) tied up in the cage. When the little red lights stop flickering, they page me.
Can i have your monitoring monkies? :gthumb:One word, Bob....MonkeyCam.
I see a whole new business venture in your future!
--Tina
Monkey Business?Monkey Business?
Monkey Found!!! <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://nocmonkey.psoft.net/">http://nocmonkey.psoft.net/</a><!-- m -->
Nothing to do with this thread...but it looks cool!
Yes, It looks cool!Thanks for the linkCheers,BeruskaCan i have your monitoring monkies? :gthumb:
I kicked them out on the street. I can give you Barry's SMS details if you like.any others , am looking for a software which a can install on my pc to remotly monitor my server ? whch would auto tell me if the server dosent respnd to ping and etc etc ?Nagios is great on Linux but if you want to run you抮e monitoring from a windows server you might look at IPSwich抯 WhatsUp Gold. It抯 been around for ever and offers all the tools you need at a reasonable price. A good tool for graphing is Cacti It抯 based on RRdtools and has a nice web interface that runs on LAMP. Kiwi Syslog is a nice windows syslog program to checkout. And definitely don抰 overlook the free tools that come with the hardware you purchase. HP SIM, is a very capable monitoring tool. In my opinion it抯 better to use a hybrid approach and use a combination of tools.OMG that Nagios 3d screen (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nagios.org/about/screenshots.php">http://www.nagios.org/about/screenshots.php</a><!-- m -->) is nice.Nagios is a good company! I recommend themThe company I work for uses Nagios.any good monitoring program like nagios, but easy configuration and installation?We use our own custom stuff as well as Woodstone's "ServersAlive".We find ServersAlive to be pretty well featured, not that expensive, and was installed and running within 15 minutes.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/index.aspWarning">http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/index.aspWarning</a><!-- m -->: you must have a Windows machine to run it on. That's great for some folks, rubs others the wrong way. For us, it's not about a debate, it's just about finding the right tool for the job.Using Nagios, it has many features. Recommend it!have been using Nagios since 2 months now, and it's superb!
Nagios <-- highly recommended!If you have alot of servers and network devices jffnms is the way to go. I have it monitoring over a hundred servers along with routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls etc. Its also pretty easy to customize to monitor just about anything you can imagine. I have it monitoring and graphing iostat figures, postfix mail queues etc.We use Nagios mostly. For those who want a desktop client, there's some 3rd party plugins. We use Ntray with Nagios.sprintserve, do you know if there is a linux desktop plugin for nagios?You may want to try this: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.itisit.nl/uk/solutions/nagioss/Im">http://www.itisit.nl/uk/solutions/nagioss/Im</a><!-- m --> using siteuptime but recently they themselves started to have down times...Our affilicate company uses. NagiosOur affilicate company uses.
Nagios
What's an affilicate company?
--TinaRight now Nagios and Cricket but like everything else I touch, I'll wind up replacing it with something homegrown in the next few months.We recently rolled out Nagios to monitor our cluster here at iNET. Works great, right now I'm trying to graph the performance data that the checks return. There are several projects out there to do this, but none of them really do a great job at it.We have a Hybodus license, but after setting it up, with all of our hosts and having it monitor system usage via SNMP it would just stop checking servers. I'm guessing the scripts or PHP would for a timeout before all of the checks could be completed. The hybodus interface and several of the features were very nice, but Nagios just plain works.This is an interesting thread since we have been testing out several monitoring programs the past week and are still debating. Nagios - Decent but not the easiest to configure.. Support for Win. monitoring is not the greatest. (Still testing plugins for it)Paessler IPCheck - Seems to work as advertised although throws up a false on occasion. Downside is monitoring anything over 100 services gets pricey.. Solarwinds Orion suite - Haven't had the chance to play with it too much but looks very complete. (pricey)IPmonitor - Simple ping test monitor. nothing special.Hyperic HQ - Seems pretty decent. Haven't the chance to check it out too much. Comes with a nice price tag though..Big sister Net Monitor - Haven't installed it yet. Cacti - Just installed it last night. It's a rrdtool based grapher but has plugins for nagios which makes it a pretty complete solution.I use cacti for monitoring and graphing system performance, and a homemade perl script for system down alerts.
I work on a gov. contract where I've implemented CA-Unicenter - which is all that and a bag of chips. It comes at a very hefty price tag though and will require training.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://opennms.org/feature">http://opennms.org/feature</a><!-- m --> reach and enterprise-gradecacti we useI recommend Zabbix (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.zabbix.com">http://www.zabbix.com</a><!-- m -->). It has a server process and agents to install on hosts that you want to monitor, but also allows monitoring with an agent via snmp or simple requests from the server. Has *nix and windows agents.
-cameronWe use downtimewitness.
Windows base software, cheap!
No updated versions lately....What software do those of you that offer managed servers use for monitoring? Hybodus gets our full endorsement. We actually have a seperate screen setup in our office to just for Hybodus. For what we paid, we definately got our moneys worth. We've also used Naigos in the past with no problems. Good Luck!http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/We also use Nagios - stable, reliable and accurate. The web interface could do with improving though - it's still a bit archaic. N.We use Nagios as well.. But will be switching to NOCmanager
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nocsw.com">http://www.nocsw.com</a><!-- m -->
It integrates with MRTG, Hybodus, Kayako, and ModernBill.. It's not free, but they offer a free trial license, if you want to try it out..
-nPersonally, I've always used my own product to do the trick there. Php does fine, actually, better than fine. Graphing is easily done with something like jpgraph, and results can easily be stored in mysql.
I've been working on and developing ltn-monitor for a few years now, never had any serious drawbacks to it, and it's only getting better
I've used most of the others and found them incredibly lacking in many ways, so, designing my own was the only choice. Of course, that's still a project in the works, but it works for me, it works for my clients, and they can keep track of their uptime rather well.I took a look at Hyperspin because a lot of people were recommending it, but I am interested in a monitoring reseller plan that offers private labeling, billing, and support. Hyperspin didn't offer that. Anyone know of one?Personally, I've always used my own product to do the trick there.
Is your product available to the public? If not will you make it available, even if it's in a not-ready-for-release state?Is your product available to the public? If not will you make it available, even if it's in a not-ready-for-release state?
Having read his description it appears that this is more of 'internal' script than anything else. I doubt this will be publically released.I use Nagios along with NRPE for on-the-box monitoring of cpu, disk usage, etc. Without NRPE your monitoring is more reactive than proactive.Hi!
I see that most of the solutions listed here are for Pro-Active response or maximum uptime. Anyone got any recommendations on Security Analyzer or detecting vulnerability in servers?
This is one that i came across - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.eiqnetworks.com/products/EnterpriseSecurityAnalyzer.shtml">http://www.eiqnetworks.com/products/Ent ... yzer.shtml</a><!-- m -->
Any inputs? Does nagios also analyze these?In theory you can setup Nagios to inform you of any type of these alerts. In practice though you are better off using Nessus (which is free) or an outside service such as ScanAlert. You should test both before and after hardening your server.Hi, I just went to Nessus, its said that its only for Linux, do you know of any that supports both Linux and Windows? ScanAlert looks more for websites. Any inputs?http://opennms.org/feature reach and enterprise-gradethank you...Zabbix is pretty good too and I am quite happy with it.
Its free as well.Nagios.Anybody got any experience on - URL="http://www.eiqnetworks.com/products/EnterpriseSecurityAnalyzer.shtml"]http://www.eiqnetworks.com/[/URL]?Im looking for a replacement for Hybodus Network montoring after i found its not PHP 5 compliant and is going open source without any paid support (after paying large sums of money for the script)I need to find a decent monitoring sysytem that will allow multiple users and groups of users, thats got a decent usable front end so that customers can login and view uptime, anlong with the usual alerts etcive looked at Nagios and its just all to hardive tried to get Zabbix to install (on a cpanel server) and gave upi saw a good sounding script called AlstraSoft Site Uptime Enterprise - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alstrasoft.com/site_uptime.htm">http://www.alstrasoft.com/site_uptime.htm</a><!-- m --> but have heard horrid reports about the company, which is a shame cause the script looks good.so now im out of ideasanyone else have any suggestions?(other than writing my own)For overall uptime report and alerts I've always used siteuptime.comI've just installed "munin" which seems to do a good job,If your using CPanel it is avalible under Addon Modules.Makes life easier as its all automatically installed.already using munin and i dont want to use a 3rd party remote monitoring serviceIm looking for a script to run internally that displays and monitors the services on each server, sends me sms and email alerts when functions are downthe script must also allow for groups of servers and groups of users with the ability to set access and viewing permissions for each of the users.This is the most important partHybodus was perfect but we dont run php4 anymore and i cant wait around for them to release this new open source version late next month, just so i can fix the php5 issues within it (we dont have any php4 servers anymore)http://cactiusers.org/wiki/CactiEZgood stuff for cacti.Used to go with Cacti, now switched to Nagios with NRPE. Does a good job, alerts are perfect and help is readily available through mailing lists.IF I may why won't you go with a third party monitoring? They are remote and cost effective.Apparently I haven't been paying as much attention to this as I thought:
Is your product available to the public?
No, it is not. Currently, it's not ready for release.
If not will you make it available, even if it's in a not-ready-for-release state?
Eventually, yes. However,
A> it won't be "open source", as too much of my personal time has gone into writing the software for it to be picked apart by individuals
B> It won't be free. Again, too much of my time has been put into this to just give it away free. I've been working on this thing for 2-3 years now.
IF I may why won't you go with a third party monitoring? They are remote and cost effective.
This is ALWAYS the best solution. Onsite monitoring is flawed at best. Why?
Firstly, what if the "onsite" monitoring server goes down. What then? If you're monitoring other servers, you're screwed.
Secondly, what if the network goes down? Redundancy is key. If your network is down, your monitoring application is down as well. This is why it is imperative to have redundant monitoring locations here.You could always program your own customised solutionsThat's what we do.It's unmatched when you do it yourself; properly that is. You are also completely in control, telling it what/not to do and security is even tighter as you personally eliminate (or sometimes cause ) security holes.
Nagios (linux) is nice and there are some great web-based config tools out there if you are not farmiliar with the format.IPcheck (windows) is good to. Much easier to setup - but comes with a price tag.MattI just found JFFNMS and it seems interesting.Steven;http://www.ossim.net/ - More security related.MattHybodus and home made scripts.Mainly nagios, currently it operates seperate from all our other systems - but in near future we will be integrating. Works quite well for our needs, and if you run it on a MySQL backend makes it easy to make a frontend interface.Definitely Nagios. We also back that up with SiteUptime.com and our own little status script.--TinaWe use ipMonitor (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ipmonitor.com">www.ipmonitor.com</a><!-- w -->). It costs some money, but works very nicely.+1 for Nagios. Great and handy tool.I use to use Nagios because it was free and a good piece of software but we are now trying out OpManager from Manage Engine and are quite impressed with it. You could check them out <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.manageengine.comI">http://www.manageengine.comI</a><!-- m --> too would recommend Nagios.. It allows you to plug in a numerous amount of modules and can be custom tailored to fit exactly what your looking for.if you just want a quick and easy utility to test any port, you can look at sysmon - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://sysmon.org/If">http://sysmon.org/If</a><!-- m --> you need to follow trends, though, nagios is a better solutionI am not an MSP, but I think Nagios is the best monitoring service around these days, its really good.you know - after looking over ipmonitor - it sort of looks like they utilize nagios in the background. look at their flash demostration and tell me if those pics dont resemble Nagios.Nagios is good if you're primarily on *nix platforms. We use a combination of Mercury SiteScope and Solarwinds Orion in house here. But we're a diverse mixed bag of various *nix flavors and Windows platforms, which puts Nagios at a disadvantage. -RogerWe Use IPCheck and PRTG Grapher from <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.paessler.com">www.paessler.com</a><!-- w -->. Very good software, allows you to monitor extensive parameters. Allows you to check actual webpages, test the email servers by sending/receiving sample email, query the database servers, generate reports, etc. The grapher allows you to see live and historical performance of your servers (CPU, Network, etc).
The best part of IPCheck is that it has a windows client. You can install this client on the workstations of your technical staff so they are alerted immediately on any issueshybodus do a pretty good job for us
We use Nagios. It has a nice web interface with many features.Cheers,BeruskaI wouldn't exactly say Nagios has a nice web interface but it has a ton of features!well what I found Nagios lacks in a pretty GUI is makes up in huge honking features. One neat thing I have Nagios doing right now is Paging my blackberry for critical events. Its save me some serious time on a few occasions.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bb4.org/">http://www.bb4.org/</a><!-- m -->Customized to our needs, works well, has 100's of plugins, monitors what we need.
- John C.I have 2 monkeys (1 extra monkey for redundancy) tied up in the cage. When the little red lights stop flickering, they page me.
But....doesn't GREEN mean all is well??? --TinaI think I'm going to have to discontinue using the (MMM) monkey monitoring method. Barry (the 2nd monkey) is currently in the midst of a steamy SMS relationship with another monkey, working in the Equinex datacenter.
I don't mind it so much, but Barry's clumsy fingers sometimes send his SMS messages accidently to me. I don't know about you, but it's no fun being woken up at 3:00am, with steamy SMS messages between 2 monkeys. :eek2:
Ok, I'll look at Nagios instead. :buck:I don't mind it so much, but Barry's clumsy fingers sometimes send his SMS messages accidently to me. I don't know about you, but it's no fun being woken up at 3:00am, with steamy SMS messages between 2 monkeys. :eek2:
One word, Bob....MonkeyCam.
I see a whole new business venture in your future!
--TinaI have 2 monkeys (1 extra monkey for redundancy) tied up in the cage. When the little red lights stop flickering, they page me.
Can i have your monitoring monkies? :gthumb:One word, Bob....MonkeyCam.
I see a whole new business venture in your future!
--Tina
Monkey Business?
Monkey Business?Monkey Found!!! <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://nocmonkey.psoft.net/">http://nocmonkey.psoft.net/</a><!-- m -->
Nothing to do with this thread...but it looks cool!
Yes, It looks cool!Thanks for the linkCheers,BeruskaCan i have your monitoring monkies? :gthumb:I kicked them out on the street. I can give you Barry's SMS details if you like.
any others , am looking for a software which a can install on my pc to remotly monitor my server ? whch would auto tell me if the server dosent respnd to ping and etc etc ?Nagios is great on Linux but if you want to run you抮e monitoring from a windows server you might look at IPSwich抯 WhatsUp Gold. It抯 been around for ever and offers all the tools you need at a reasonable price. A good tool for graphing is Cacti It抯 based on RRdtools and has a nice web interface that runs on LAMP. Kiwi Syslog is a nice windows syslog program to checkout. And definitely don抰 overlook the free tools that come with the hardware you purchase. HP SIM, is a very capable monitoring tool. In my opinion it抯 better to use a hybrid approach and use a combination of tools.OMG that Nagios 3d screen (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nagios.org/about/screenshots.php">http://www.nagios.org/about/screenshots.php</a><!-- m -->) is nice.Nagios is a good company! I recommend themThe company I work for uses Nagios.any good monitoring program like nagios, but easy configuration and installation?We use our own custom stuff as well as Woodstone's "ServersAlive".We find ServersAlive to be pretty well featured, not that expensive, and was installed and running within 15 minutes.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/index.aspWarning">http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/index.aspWarning</a><!-- m -->: you must have a Windows machine to run it on. That's great for some folks, rubs others the wrong way. For us, it's not about a debate, it's just about finding the right tool for the job.Using Nagios, it has many features. Recommend it!have been using Nagios since 2 months now, and it's superb!Nagios <-- highly recommended!If you have alot of servers and network devices jffnms is the way to go. I have it monitoring over a hundred servers along with routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls etc. Its also pretty easy to customize to monitor just about anything you can imagine. I have it monitoring and graphing iostat figures, postfix mail queues etc.We use Nagios mostly. For those who want a desktop client, there's some 3rd party plugins. We use Ntray with Nagios.sprintserve, do you know if there is a linux desktop plugin for nagios?You may want to try this: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.itisit.nl/uk/solutions/nagioss/Im">http://www.itisit.nl/uk/solutions/nagioss/Im</a><!-- m --> using siteuptime but recently they themselves started to have down times...Our affilicate company uses. NagiosOur affilicate company uses.
Nagios
What's an affilicate company?
--TinaRight now Nagios and Cricket but like everything else I touch, I'll wind up replacing it with something homegrown in the next few months.We recently rolled out Nagios to monitor our cluster here at iNET. Works great, right now I'm trying to graph the performance data that the checks return. There are several projects out there to do this, but none of them really do a great job at it.We have a Hybodus license, but after setting it up, with all of our hosts and having it monitor system usage via SNMP it would just stop checking servers. I'm guessing the scripts or PHP would for a timeout before all of the checks could be completed. The hybodus interface and several of the features were very nice, but Nagios just plain works.This is an interesting thread since we have been testing out several monitoring programs the past week and are still debating. Nagios - Decent but not the easiest to configure.. Support for Win. monitoring is not the greatest. (Still testing plugins for it)Paessler IPCheck - Seems to work as advertised although throws up a false on occasion. Downside is monitoring anything over 100 services gets pricey.. Solarwinds Orion suite - Haven't had the chance to play with it too much but looks very complete. (pricey)IPmonitor - Simple ping test monitor. nothing special.Hyperic HQ - Seems pretty decent. Haven't the chance to check it out too much. Comes with a nice price tag though..Big sister Net Monitor - Haven't installed it yet. Cacti - Just installed it last night. It's a rrdtool based grapher but has plugins for nagios which makes it a pretty complete solution.I use cacti for monitoring and graphing system performance, and a homemade perl script for system down alerts.
I work on a gov. contract where I've implemented CA-Unicenter - which is all that and a bag of chips. It comes at a very hefty price tag though and will require training.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://opennms.org/feature">http://opennms.org/feature</a><!-- m --> reach and enterprise-gradecacti we useI recommend Zabbix (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.zabbix.com">http://www.zabbix.com</a><!-- m -->). It has a server process and agents to install on hosts that you want to monitor, but also allows monitoring with an agent via snmp or simple requests from the server. Has *nix and windows agents.
-cameronWe use downtimewitness.
Windows base software, cheap!
No updated versions lately....What software do those of you that offer managed servers use for monitoring? Hybodus gets our full endorsement. We actually have a seperate screen setup in our office to just for Hybodus. For what we paid, we definately got our moneys worth. We've also used Naigos in the past with no problems. Good Luck!http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/We also use Nagios - stable, reliable and accurate. The web interface could do with improving though - it's still a bit archaic.
N.We use Nagios as well.. But will be switching to NOCmanager<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nocsw.com">http://www.nocsw.com</a><!-- m -->
It integrates with MRTG, Hybodus, Kayako, and ModernBill.. It's not free, but they offer a free trial license, if you want to try it out..
-nPersonally, I've always used my own product to do the trick there. Php does fine, actually, better than fine. Graphing is easily done with something like jpgraph, and results can easily be stored in mysql.
I've been working on and developing ltn-monitor for a few years now, never had any serious drawbacks to it, and it's only getting better
I've used most of the others and found them incredibly lacking in many ways, so, designing my own was the only choice. Of course, that's still a project in the works, but it works for me, it works for my clients, and they can keep track of their uptime rather well.I took a look at Hyperspin because a lot of people were recommending it, but I am interested in a monitoring reseller plan that offers private labeling, billing, and support. Hyperspin didn't offer that. Anyone know of one?Personally, I've always used my own product to do the trick there.
Is your product available to the public? If not will you make it available, even if it's in a not-ready-for-release state?Is your product available to the public? If not will you make it available, even if it's in a not-ready-for-release state?
Having read his description it appears that this is more of 'internal' script than anything else. I doubt this will be publically released.I use Nagios along with NRPE for on-the-box monitoring of cpu, disk usage, etc. Without NRPE your monitoring is more reactive than proactive.Hi!
I see that most of the solutions listed here are for Pro-Active response or maximum uptime. Anyone got any recommendations on Security Analyzer or detecting vulnerability in servers?
This is one that i came across - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.eiqnetworks.com/products/EnterpriseSecurityAnalyzer.shtml">http://www.eiqnetworks.com/products/Ent ... yzer.shtml</a><!-- m -->
Any inputs? Does nagios also analyze these?In theory you can setup Nagios to inform you of any type of these alerts. In practice though you are better off using Nessus (which is free) or an outside service such as ScanAlert. You should test both before and after hardening your server.Hi, I just went to Nessus, its said that its only for Linux, do you know of any that supports both Linux and Windows? ScanAlert looks more for websites. Any inputs?http://opennms.org/feature reach and enterprise-gradethank you...Zabbix is pretty good too and I am quite happy with it.
Its free as well.Nagios.
Anybody got any experience on - URL="http://www.eiqnetworks.com/products/EnterpriseSecurityAnalyzer.shtml"]http://www.eiqnetworks.com/[/URL]?Im looking for a replacement for Hybodus Network montoring after i found its not PHP 5 compliant and is going open source without any paid support (after paying large sums of money for the script)I need to find a decent monitoring sysytem that will allow multiple users and groups of users, thats got a decent usable front end so that customers can login and view uptime, anlong with the usual alerts etcive looked at Nagios and its just all to hardive tried to get Zabbix to install (on a cpanel server) and gave upi saw a good sounding script called AlstraSoft Site Uptime Enterprise - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alstrasoft.com/site_uptime.htm">http://www.alstrasoft.com/site_uptime.htm</a><!-- m --> but have heard horrid reports about the company, which is a shame cause the script looks good.so now im out of ideasanyone else have any suggestions?(other than writing my own)For overall uptime report and alerts I've always used siteuptime.comI've just installed "munin" which seems to do a good job,If your using CPanel it is avalible under Addon Modules.Makes life easier as its all automatically installed.already using munin and i dont want to use a 3rd party remote monitoring serviceIm looking for a script to run internally that displays and monitors the services on each server, sends me sms and email alerts when functions are downthe script must also allow for groups of servers and groups of users with the ability to set access and viewing permissions for each of the users.This is the most important partHybodus was perfect but we dont run php4 anymore and i cant wait around for them to release this new open source version late next month, just so i can fix the php5 issues within it (we dont have any php4 servers anymore)http://cactiusers.org/wiki/CactiEZgood stuff for cacti.Used to go with Cacti, now switched to Nagios with NRPE. Does a good job, alerts are perfect and help is readily available through mailing lists.IF I may why won't you go with a third party monitoring? They are remote and cost effective.Apparently I haven't been paying as much attention to this as I thought:Is your product available to the public?
No, it is not. Currently, it's not ready for release.
If not will you make it available, even if it's in a not-ready-for-release state?
Eventually, yes. However,
A> it won't be "open source", as too much of my personal time has gone into writing the software for it to be picked apart by individuals
B> It won't be free. Again, too much of my time has been put into this to just give it away free. I've been working on this thing for 2-3 years now.
IF I may why won't you go with a third party monitoring? They are remote and cost effective.
This is ALWAYS the best solution. Onsite monitoring is flawed at best. Why?
Firstly, what if the "onsite" monitoring server goes down. What then? If you're monitoring other servers, you're screwed.
Secondly, what if the network goes down? Redundancy is key. If your network is down, your monitoring application is down as well. This is why it is imperative to have redundant monitoring locations here.You could always program your own customised solutions
That's what we do.It's unmatched when you do it yourself; properly that is. You are also completely in control, telling it what/not to do and security is even tighter as you personally eliminate (or sometimes cause ) security holes.