How many of us start blogs and just let them sit idle? Many I suppose. I've been rather busy and ..... blah, blah, blah, insert all your excuses .... blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I will try to bring more interesting tidbits soon. I haven't had any major projects recently. I guess I can mention uptime system monitoring. Many of you may already be familiar with them.
http://www.uptimesoftware.com/
I have been looking using an eval for a few weeks and I am very impressed. I have mainly been using opensource projects to monitor servers. They usually work great for Linux distros, but lack for HP-UX monitoring. Uptime has an HP-UX agent and it gets me all the info I am interested in. It has great graphs and reporting tools, etc. It was nice to install a service that had all the goodies I need right out of the box.
The pricing is not bad either. The management piece is approx $2500 US. And the agents are around $625 US. I know that sounds like it could be a lot of cash, but it is great for people running virtuals. They have an ESX agent and according to uptime they give you agents for all the virtual hosts under the ESX agent license. So if you have 30 virtual host, or 60, it doesn't matter. You only pay for the one ESX agent. That's a great deal.
One extra note. I do not do much Windows admin work anymore, but they are actually coming out with agentless windows monitoring. They will be using WMI/WBEM to get windows stats in the future. That may not excite you, but I wrote WMI scripts for a few years and found it noteworthy.
http://www.uptimesoftware.com/
I have been looking using an eval for a few weeks and I am very impressed. I have mainly been using opensource projects to monitor servers. They usually work great for Linux distros, but lack for HP-UX monitoring. Uptime has an HP-UX agent and it gets me all the info I am interested in. It has great graphs and reporting tools, etc. It was nice to install a service that had all the goodies I need right out of the box.
The pricing is not bad either. The management piece is approx $2500 US. And the agents are around $625 US. I know that sounds like it could be a lot of cash, but it is great for people running virtuals. They have an ESX agent and according to uptime they give you agents for all the virtual hosts under the ESX agent license. So if you have 30 virtual host, or 60, it doesn't matter. You only pay for the one ESX agent. That's a great deal.
One extra note. I do not do much Windows admin work anymore, but they are actually coming out with agentless windows monitoring. They will be using WMI/WBEM to get windows stats in the future. That may not excite you, but I wrote WMI scripts for a few years and found it noteworthy.
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