Re: [SAGE] Question regarding Windows 2003 Server MMC Performance Monitor

[David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca>]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 13:01, Jens Link wrote:

> Using SNMP and e.g. Cacti  you can easily monitor bandwidth usage  
> of your
> routers, disk space on your Windows and Linux Server, etc. Cacti or  
> any
> other RRD-Tool based program is used for long term monitoring.
>
> You can also use Nagios (+NRPE) to monitor all your hosts (including
> Windows). Nagios is used to check the availability of hosts and  
> services
> and has a pretty good notification framework.
>
> Using NRPE with the default plugins on Windows it's even possible to
> check the Windows event log for messages or check if a service is
> running or not.

If the OP is going to implement SNMP then it may be better to use a  
monitoring tool that uses SNMP (Zenoss, Hyperic, OpenNMS, etc.).

Nothing wrong with Nagios+NRPE (use it myself), but if you're going  
to take the effort to set up SNMP on hosts you might as well use that  
instead of also having to go through setting up agent-based  
monitoring. Many of the above mentioned open source monitoring  
systems have decent auto-discovery, so if it finds SNMP it can do a  
'walk' and see what's up.