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SolomonW

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Nov 15, 2009, 1:09:36 AM11/15/09
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I am look for some software that can be installed on a machine and it will
email me regularly the system status, windows updates installed, network
traffic and some technical details of its memory used, paging files, cpu
usage etc

I have seen a few commercials ones but they are very expensive.

The best I could find is spotlight which is free but it seems to do only
part of the job.

Gary R. Schmidt

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Nov 15, 2009, 6:18:52 AM11/15/09
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Well, Spotlight is really just part of a suite of tools, it is intended
to be used for direct examination of the machine, after the /real/
monitoring too, FogLight (and, previously, I/Watch) has alerted the
SysAdmin to a possible problem with it. (I worked on I/Watch and
FogLight and Spotlight (for UNIX) when I worked at Quest.)

For free systems monitoring software, either Nagios
<http://www.nagios.org> or BigBrother (which is also owned by Quest,
but has a free non-commercial version) at <http://www.bb4.org>, are my
recommendations.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

sandy58

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Nov 15, 2009, 8:51:22 AM11/15/09
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SolomonW

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Nov 16, 2009, 3:04:07 AM11/16/09
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On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:52 +1100, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:

> SolomonW wrote:
>> I am look for some software that can be installed on a machine and it will
>> email me regularly the system status, windows updates installed, network
>> traffic and some technical details of its memory used, paging files, cpu
>> usage etc
>>
>> I have seen a few commercials ones but they are very expensive.
>>
>> The best I could find is spotlight which is free but it seems to do only
>> part of the job.
> Well, Spotlight is really just part of a suite of tools, it is intended
> to be used for direct examination of the machine, after the /real/
> monitoring too, FogLight (and, previously, I/Watch) has alerted the
> SysAdmin to a possible problem with it. (I worked on I/Watch and
> FogLight and Spotlight (for UNIX) when I worked at Quest.)
>

Spotlight is good and does have a error logging facility that does email
but it will not do the job.


> For free systems monitoring software, either Nagios
> <http://www.nagios.org> or BigBrother (which is also owned by Quest,
> but has a free non-commercial version) at <http://www.bb4.org>, are my
> recommendations.
>
> Cheers,
> Gary B-)


Nagios looks good. I could not use Bigbrother for work unless we pay for
it, which I doubt my boss would.

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