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availability stats and zinky dinks

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  • 31-03-2004 2:03pm
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    Fionn101
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭


    Hi ,

    boss wants to be able to see the availability of a few servers and a nice graph chart to go with it (make it easy to read, and look nice in meetings heh)

    I'd prefer not to install a program on each server but rather use my management server to poll the other servers, anyone recommend a decent program ,
    to show uptime etc ?


    cheers,

    Fionn

    zinky dinks as been stuck in my head all day ,GRRRR


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    ColmOT [MSFT]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭ColmOT [MSFT]


    Use Performance Monitor in W2K/WS03

    Or you can poll the machine at intervals using WMI in a script to grab the info.


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    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    WhatsUp Gold is a great tool for that kind of thing. I'm not 100% you can make graphs but an eval might tell you that.


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    Hankster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭Hankster


    MRTG and PRTG can do this for you too.

    MRTG is free, but difficult to setup. PRTG costs €39.99 per server licence or €199.99 for a site licence, but is easy to setup. Both require SNMP be installed on the servers (or whatever devices) you wish to monitor.

    And both do pretty graphs.


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    Fionn101
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭Fionn101


    Ta very much all ,

    looks like MRTG is the one to go for , or perhaps perf mon ,

    whatsup gold is far too expensive for earthlings,


    Cheers for the ideas folks, free zinky dinks for all .


    Fionn


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