Killer open source monitoring tools

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 24, 2008 6:40 PM EDT
Computerworld; By Paul Venezia
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In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don't know what your network and servers are doing at every second of the day, you're flying blind. Sooner or later, you're going to meet with disaster. Fortunately, there are a plethora of good tools, both commercial and open source, that can shine much-needed light into your environment. Because good and free always beats good and costly, I've compiled a list of my favorite open source tools that prove their worth day in and day out in networks of any size. From network and server monitoring to trending, graphing, and even switch and router configuration backups, these utilities will see you through.

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Nice list techiem2 3 801 Nov 25, 2008 11:46 AM

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