[geeks] WinNT management solution

[Bill Bradford]

Bandwidth monitoring (off the Ciscos) : www.mrtg.org
Service / port monitoring: NOCOL/SNIPS, www.navya.com/software/nocol
Remote system administration: VNC, http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

All free.

Thats what I would do... of course, all these products run on a UNIX
host.. 8-)

Bill

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:40:24AM -0500, Hatle, Steven J. wrote:
> All,
> In the course of my day job, I need to research solutions to monitor/manage
> a 200 site network of Win2K servers and workstations.
> This will be distributed over 200 geographical sites, with between 10 and 35
> nodes at each location. The sites will be connected via a private frame
> relay network, with some sites being connected through a VPN solution where
> frame isn't available due to physical or cost considerations.
> Beyond basic up/down reporting, we would like to watch network utilization
> and latency, monitor the Cisco hardware connecting everything together,
> monitor/restart certain NT services, be able to leverage the internal
> hardware reporting of the machines (Insight Manager or OpenManage), and
> since there will be no technical people at these sites, do as much remote
> control as possible of the one file server and as many workstations as
> practical.
> Facility for hardware/software inventory and management, and software
> updating a la' SMS would be nice, too.
> All this will roll back to a central NOC that will monitor, handhold, and
> invoke software or hardware support as necessary.
> I've been doing the vendor dance for a while now, but I would appreciate any
> "real-world" comments from you guys, without prejudicing anything by letting
> you know who have been pitching us.
> TIA,
> Steve

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX