Archive for the 'Network Monitoring' Category

Windows based dynamic systems management update


June 18th, 2009

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Not sure how to subscribe to a RSS feed? Read Subscribing to blogs the easy way. Thanks for visiting!As a follow up to the Windows based structured systems management post, I have found a network monitor that does have some dynamic abilities.
PolyMon [...]

A real world example of the problems with open core software


May 21st, 2009

A real world example of what Tarus Balog from OpenNMS has been banging on about recently with his critique of open core or fauxpen source.
A product manager who has an open product and a closed product plainly has a decision to make over which features go into which product. Give too much away and the [...]

First ICINGA beta is released


May 20th, 2009

The first ICINGA beta has been released with a new GUI written in PHP 5 utilising the Agavi MVC framework. A project roadmap is available so you can see where the project is headed.

Naguino: an Arduino-based LCD monitor for Nagios


May 12th, 2009

If you’ve ever wanted to know the status of your Nagios installation without having to open a browser, you may find Naguino a fun and useful addition to your monitoring toolkit.
All you need is the Arduino board, an ethernet board, a LCD screen and some software.

Four network monitoring tools with web based interfaces…


November 11th, 2008

… a nice roundup by Linux.com outlining some of the options for network monitoring in a *nix environment.

Distributed network monitoring interview with Robert Aronsson


September 10th, 2008

Robert Aronsson is the CEO of Intellipool AB a company with over ten years experience of the network management market. Intellipool introduced a distributed network monitor over four years ago. I interviewed Robert with a view to getting some insight into Intellipool’s experience of implementing distributed network monitoring solutions with their customers.
The interview was conducted [...]

Distributed network monitoring introduction


September 3rd, 2008

A number of mid-level network monitoring products, like What’s Up Gold & Intellipool for instance, have recently implemented distributed monitoring features. Mid-level network monitoring products are now implementing  distributed monitoring so it is affordable by a lot more companies.
Single Poller Monitoring
With regular network monitoring you have a single poller measuring network and server performance from [...]

Intellipool user contributed script round-up


November 1st, 2007

Intellipool has a large community of script writers. I thought it would be handy to offer a summary of what’s available:
INM Mobile dashboard
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1138
Voice alerts with INM we’ve already covered this here
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1120
Monitoring of Microsoft SQL Server
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1136
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1135
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1134
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1133
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1132
Detect un-authorized process running on a monitor machine
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1081
Monitoring of Veritas BackupExec job completion
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=802
Action to remove files older than X hours
http://www.intellipool.se/forum/index.php?showtopic=1041
Many of [...]

Voice alerts with Intellipool or pretty well anything


October 30th, 2007

Thanks to Robert @ Intellipool for alerting me to this one.
Intellipool, as many of you may already know, is an excellent web based network monitor. One of the problems it has had, and its competitors for that matter, is the difficulty of informing off site duty IT personnel when things *really* go wrong.
Many people rely [...]

ANN: Intellipool Network Monitor 3.3 released


October 12th, 2007

We are pleased to announce the availability of Intellipool 3.3.
The headline feature for us is the support for the Sensatronics Senturion, the new rack-mounted environment monitor. There is plenty more for everybody though.