If your looking for a good network monitoring application that is low cost, easy to setup, easy to use, and still does a good job, take a look at Cacti. Cacti is an open source network monitoring system that uses apache, php, mysql, rrdtool, and net-snmp to monitor network attached devices.
Cacti gives you device status via SNMP or ICMP and various performance graphs via SNMP. SNMP versions 1, 2, and 3 are supported by Cacti. The one shortcoming is a limited number of device types supported out of the box, but don't let that scare you off. The generic counters should be adequate to get you up and going.
I used Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as my host system and installation was straight forward and fast. Just make sure that you look at the install doc and install the required packages before you install Cacti. With the version of Ubuntu I used, apt missed the install of mysql-server for some reason. However, i simply installed mysql-server and then ran dpkg-reconfigure cacti and I was back on track.
If you want to get up and running with the least amount of trouble I would stick with one of the distros that have a package available, i.e. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc...
Cacti Website
Have fun...
Monday, July 13, 2009
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I have Network Monitoring Software from Kaseya. I havent had any problems with it and has worked better than expected. I would definately recommend trying Kaseya.
http://www.kaseya.com/products/system-monitoring-alerts.aspx
http://www.blog.kaseya.com/
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