[LUG] Server / Network monitoring

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a bit of advice on server and network monitoring and 
wondered if anyone had any experience?

Where I work our network of servers and clients seems to be ever 
expanding.  Previously for monitoring we've used Nagios and Munin but 
while Munin but we're looking for something different, something that 
can monitor all our servers (a mixture of Debian and Windows Server).

I've had a quick play today with Zabbix and while it seems to support 
Linux and Windows systems it looks like a bit of a pig to configure (and 
after a bit of Googling I couldn't find out how to do something simple 
like monitoring disk space on a Linux machine).

We're looking for something open source that can sit on a Debian box 
and provide a pretty web interface for our Helpdesk to monitor things, 
and have something ring alarms (aka e-mail us) when things go wrong and 
I wondered what you guys use for network and server monitoring?

Ta,

Rob


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