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14th October 2005, 01:55 PM
browolf

server benchmarks

is there software/something else thats good at highlighting that a given server is underpowered/overworked?

Perfomance monitor is only good if u know what to measure and what the results mean.
14th October 2005, 02:22 PM
mark

Re: server benchmarks

What's that linux based SNMP graphing tool you could use for this?
14th October 2005, 02:58 PM
browolf

Re: server benchmarks

cactus? mrtg?
I havent got time to learn linux properly :roll: :wink:
14th October 2005, 02:58 PM
Geoff

Re: server benchmarks

Cacti?

http://www.cacti.net/

Or if that doesn't give enough info or you want email/pager/blah notification too try nagios.

http://www.nagios.org/
14th October 2005, 03:13 PM
mark

Re: server benchmarks

Ah! that's them!!! :)

I sat next to a guy in a pub who was monitoring his home temperature on a PDA using what looked like Nagios!
14th October 2005, 03:27 PM
ChrisH

Re: server benchmarks

Quote:

Originally Posted by mark

Ah! that's them!!! :)

I sat next to a guy in a pub who was monitoring his home temperature on a PDA using what looked like Nagios!

I had to read that twice as I didnt believe it the first time. Monitoring his home PC from the pub .................. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
14th October 2005, 03:32 PM
andy

Re: server benchmarks

Now, if we can just convince SMT that the pub is the optimum place for monitoring the school network...
14th October 2005, 03:34 PM
mark

Re: server benchmarks

...well he could shut his servers off if the temperature got too high!
14th October 2005, 03:42 PM
Geoff

Re: server benchmarks

Nah, you can get software to do that automatically.

http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/
14th October 2005, 07:11 PM
sahmeepee

Re: server benchmarks

In Microsoft land you can use Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). The new version is supposedly a huge improvement over the slightly pants MOM 2000, but they've changed the licensing structure recently :( .

You now pay for the MOM server (as before) and then pay again for all servers that you monitor too. You'll be amazed to hear that it works out more expensive in nearly all cases.

MOM comes with a set of standard alerts for different server types (Exchange/SQL server/DCs/Plain Ol' Windows/Sharepoint/etc.) and reports to highlight which servers are most in need of upgrades. You can configure it to do just about anything if your scripting is up to it, but it does the basic stuff out of the box. There are 3rd party management packs too so you can, for example, jack it into your Dell OpenManage software if you have any Dell servers.
14th October 2005, 10:03 PM
russdev

Re: server benchmarks

question is there a Nagios port for windows as havnt got time at moment to set the linux server up

russ