Hello Oliver, When choosing a monitoring software one should look into what the needs are. How much time should be used on the project. What is the resources inside the company. If you don't have the resources for linux, then don't use Nagios. However if you want to use the time to build up a linux knowhow to be able to handle Nagios then it's fine. I use SNMP to check all kinds of things on our win boxes. CPU, DISKSPACE, TASKS, UPTIME, NETWORK I don't use any agent other then the SNMP-agent. Howerver it take sometime to get used to the SNMP-enviroment. Best regards Thomas <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <td bgcolor=#e1e1e1>"Oliver Marshall" <Oliver.Marshall@g2support.com> Sendt af: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net 22-05-2006 11:01 <td bgcolor=#e1e1e1> Til: <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> cc: Vedr.: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Windows servers</table> <tt>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 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </tt>