Monitoring Windows servers

[Oliver Marshall]

I have spent the last week looking for a monitoring solution. I have
been assessing Nagios, Zabbix, and Servers Alive for Windows.

Servers Alive may seem perfect, though its clearly more expensive than
the rest. I think it may have an issue monitoring clients servers on
other domains etc as it lacks some form of remote authentication.

Zabbix I will admit is my preference as it's all web based. It's windows
agent means that I can get local info and, more importantly, run a
script on the client server and get the results. However, the
documentation is truly terrible and the Windows side is even worse. The
last thing I need is someone to cock-up a monitoring setup and then
never get informed of any issues.

Nagios is clearly the daddy when it comes to network monitoring, though
it does require a level of linux knowledge that we just don't have here
(ssh access to setup the config for starters). I know that there is a
web based tool for setting up the monitoring config (Nagat or something)
but that's now not being supported or added to, and it's policy to not
use out-of-support products. I know there is also a 3rd party Windows
Agent that can run on the servers and monitor local events, though it
doesn't have scripting support, and it's not part of the main build, and
hasn't been updated for sometime.

Does anyone have anything useful I should consider when looking at
Nagios ? Any other web based config tools that can be used? Any other
windows agents etc ? Any comments on my opinions so far ?

Olly


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