[EAS] EAS: Pinging remote computers

[Mike Benonis]

A hearty second for Nagios.  We use Opsview Core actually, which is a framework built on top of Nagios to make it a bit more user friendly/point-and-click.

Nagios monitors all of our critical IT infrastructure, including servers, switches, routers, and even our ENDECs.  It does far more than ping: for example, it makes an HTTP request against our ENDEC and verifies that the ENDEC requests a username and password.  Our entire network can be viewed from a dashboard so we can be assured everything is running correctly.

Think of it as AutoPilot for your computers.

Mike

On 8 May 2013, at 10:23, Fletcher @ UWyo.Edu <fletcher at uwyo.edu> wrote:

> 
> It may be overkill, but what about Nagios?
> www.nagios.org
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> __Reid__
> 
> On 5/8/2013 8:12 AM, Richard Rudman wrote:
>> John Collinson and I (and possibly others) are looking for a free or almost free solution that would not require additional hardware.
>> 
>> Richard