Just a heads up, I downloaded a few days a monitor tool called Hybodus .. just fell in love with it .. and then decided to grab on a license (quite inexpensive)

Since I believe good things are to be shared ... check it out at http://www.hybodus.com

I'm very impressed :)

Carlos
Relio.com

its real nice but its capablity is not enough for me according to the developers it can only handle around 100 servers

http://www.hybodus.com/faq.php?cmd=view&faq_id=7


That depends on your system and network speed. If you have a modern system and a fast network connection, the possibilities are really limitless within reason.


I made a test with 21 servers and about 120 services, it took 2.3 seconds .. using a dual 800Mhz with 1GB of ram

they recomend to keep it under 1 minutes .. at that rate I can scan hundreds of servers with no problem .. :)

but this is also a new program, I am sure they still got a few things to work on

Carlos

About to hook this up to 40+ servers so will let you know how it goes as we expand.

As long as its run on a capable machine I dont see the problem. We'll be running it pretty much on its own Dual Xeon so should be fine.

Any more comments from anyone already using this?

Looks interesting. Still using Nagios here but nice to see some other options with clean uis

Thanks for the pointer. Looks like a promising alternative!

Shame it has lots of frillies and not the really useful stuff like Dependencies, we tried it, but without dependencies it's very wasteful and time consuming - For example if a server goes down, instead of one message, you get one for the server and one for every service - No good if you're using SMS and paying for the messages.

hmm...
Not bad for management! I will look at this. About KDAs message, I agree... my cel phone had 30 text messages telling me about my server failure the other day... how annoying!

Yep, annoying and expensive if you have multiple techs alerted as we do. If a switch went, ughh, I'd hate to think how many messages it'd be.

Why not just use nagios.....it's free.

installed.

tested.

hated it.

uninstalled.

How do you find nagios / argus and this? Which is the best?

argus is free, written in perl. i monitor currently dozens of servers and almost 200 services every 2 mins or less and the resource usage is almost always low.