Monitoring server and networking health for clients
Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Server monitoring, Network Monitor, Network Monitoring Tools, Network monitoring
We have a data center with 25 racks and cabinents. They are all owned by individuals or other companies. It is not our equipment but the racks and the network is. Long story short how can we monitor server and network health monitoring for our clients?
ASKED:
Dec 1, 2010 3:04 PM GMT
UPDATED:
December 1, 2010 3:54:52 PM GMT
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Answer Wiki:
You would need a monitoring solution installed on a server with network access to all of the servers you want to monitor, and depending on what you want to monitor and how you want to do it, you could need a user account on the operating systems of those machines (for example if you want to monitor using WMI (windows) or SSH (linux/unix)). This would not be necessary if you want to monitor using SNMP, but an SNMP agent would need to be running on the machines.
Other solutions would require a proprietary agent to be installed on the monitored systems.
There are free tools, and there are paid products which tend to be more feature reach and have better suppport.
If you are interested in free solutions, take a look at this question/answer:
Free infrastructure/network monitoring software for SMB
Other solutions would require a proprietary agent to be installed on the monitored systems.
There are free tools, and there are paid products which tend to be more feature reach and have better suppport.
If you are interested in free solutions, take a look at this question/answer:
Free infrastructure/network monitoring software for SMB
60,255 pts.
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