Realtime monitoring software for server farm

[CougTek]

What do you guys use to monitor services and systems on your server farms? Here, all we have is SpiceWorks, but I don't see how to configure it to send alerts when something's down. In my previous company, we used Zabbix. I read a little about Splunk too, but I don't know if it's good or not.

Suggestions?

 

[Howell]

Solarwinds. Before that we used What's Up Gold. Solarwinds is very powerful, WUG is fairly cheap.

 

[timwhit]

One of my ex-employer's used What's Up Gold. I wasn't personally in charge of administering it, but from what I saw the interfaces were pretty terrible.

 

[Mercutio]

One of my customers paid for Solarwinds and for their stuff and I will admit that I'm monitoring a lot more than their servers with it.

 

[blakerwry]

Cacti is a good tool for snmp monitoring. Lots of pre made templates, threshold alerting, reports, etc. there's a pre-made distribution - cacti-ez if you want to get started quickly.

 

[CougTek]

I'll take a look when I have time to revisit that. Thanks.