Question How can I monitor my servers and networks without old-school software like nagios or zabbix?

[HansKlein10]

New to the forum and hoping for some insight: I need to monitor 23 servers and 16 switches/routers. The last time I installed Nagios on a virtual machine on my network. But Nagios seems like overkill. It consumes time, looks odd and I don't need most of the features. I looked at Zabbix. It seems a bit leaner but it's still a huge product and by no means intuitive.

I'm willing to pay a little for a cloud tool. I just want to know if a VM or a device is down and I need some basic alerting for high load, full disk, etc. I'm searching for a simple solution that can be implemented quickly.

Google brings some candidates - some of them are also oversized for my needs, like New Relic. But others sound promising.

Is anyone using a cloud or SaaS-based monitoring solution? What are your experiences and what can you recommend?

 

[Ralston18]

Look into Powershell.

Some reference links:

https://www.motadata.com/blog/powershell-powerful-enough-monitoring-network/

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/917n0b/network_monitoring_script/


https://www.red-gate.com/simple-tal...ay-admin-tasks-part-6-real-time-it-dashboard/

Googling "Powershell network monitoring" or similar words and phrases will find many links.

Start simple and expand as you learn and evolve the requirements. Not likely to find/develop one "killer" script but there is a lot to be said for a few simple tools versus some cumbersome monster do it all script.

Powershell is an admin tool that will prove very useful overall for many things.

No harm in learning about it. Free and you have full control versus some third party tool.

 

[doolittle]

I do something similar, instead of PS on windows I use scripts on a linux server that runs every so often and does snmpwalk to get monitoring details and send email / text alerts on critical events. That being said all you really need is a working external mail relay on your network...

 

[failboat]

I see tons of people using the TIG stack on their homelabs.

How to Install TIG Stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana) on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure the TIG Stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana) using a single Ubuntu 18.04 Server. We ...

www.howtoforge.com

 

[adremsoft]

Hey, Hans! Why don't you give NetCrunch a look? Sounds like our Performance Monitor package would be for you!

https://www.adremsoft.com/netcrunch/products/performance-monitor