Hi All Many thanks for the many replies, too many to list each one. Here is the general brief overview, will post a more in depoth when I get a minute. Most ref'd Nagios as open source and does a good job - so should be first port of call for investigation. Various other both free and pay for systems are being used, general consensus was as follows. 1) The pay for options vary from good to not so good and really because of pricing is suitable for larger number of servers only. 2) The return is definitely related to the effort put in regardless of if free or pay for used. 3) Alternatives to Nagios were mentioned as were simple scripting for if a small number of servers are required using the standard prtdiag etc. As my requirement is for a small number of servers, in the 5-15 range, I am going to investigate the free offerings and review my scripting that I already use to improve the reporting. I will summarise when I get chance all the options suggested, together with any comments received as all are not equal it appears (as you would expect). Thanks agin for your help. Peter Hi All I am trying to find what options I have for monitoring the health of a few SPARC based systems on a site and would appreciate some feedback on what folk use and how effective they find it (and any costs involved in buying etc). Thanks in advance for your responses. Peter ------------------------------ Peter Stokes Tel: +44 1636 627990 ------------------------------- ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3811 - Release Date: 08/04/11 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Aug 5 05:27:39 2011
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