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Monitoring Software
I am looking for monitoring software. I was looking at GFI's solution, but wanted to see what you guys would suggest.
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What kind of environment are you in ... small business, medium, large enterprise?
Monitoring software is pretty generalized ... if you are in a small-medium type business I'd just use Performance Monitor and configure alerting ... Exchange has some fairly decent built in utils for general monitoring ...
What kind of firewall are you running?
What kind of budget?
Big Brother (www.bb4.com) monitors alsorts, with lots of plug-ins, very extenable with scripting and cheap
But basically, I am looking for central monitoring of our systems.
Reporting and graphing would be nice.
Security monitoring.
Intrusion Detection.
Basically everything here http://gfi.com/languard/
I am just looking for options, you give me solutions and I will compare them.
ISS has quite a few security products - http://www.iss.net/product
Honestly you can probably use the native utilities to do almost everything you want ... if you are looking for a centralized resource for all of those types of monitoring, you'll be hard pressed to find one util that does everything well ...
I'd try to setup performance monitor and alerts for your general resource monitoring and then look at purchasing a good utility for security ... GFI Languard is a pretty decent util ...
NetIQ has some decent monitoring products for resource and security monitoring ... it might be a little bit more than what you are looking to spend though ...
Hi JoshDale,
Take a look at Nagios - http://www.nagios.org
It's an open source system, and allows you to monitor all manner of things.
It takes a little while to set up, but most of that is planning time - that you'll need to go through anyway.
I am a big fan of Solar Winds Orion
http://www.solarwinds.net
It is extremely simple to setup and manage, and the reports, charts and graphs just can't be beat.
Price is not bad, either..
For the security part, take a look at Lockdown auditor appliance:
http://www.lockdownnetwork
Agree with the ISS comment {11955129} , RealSecure is no fun, there are plenty of Open Source tools. Have a read of Andrew Lockhart's Network Security Hacks (http://www.amazon.com/exe
an excellent book with a good section on IDS.
One thing I don't like about Nagios is that it is not SNMP standards based, and there a several files that have to be hand-edited to add any host to be monitored.
If you want information on data traffic and web browsing, you can't beat NTOP combined with Cisco Netflow:
http://www.ntop.org
Bottom line is that there are many tools out there, and not one will give you all the information that you need, so your toolset should have multiple products in it.
AppliedWatch has a new event coorelation engine that is cost effective:
http://www.appliedwatch.co
OSSIM
OSSIM aims to unify network monitoring, security, correlation and qualification in one single tool. Using Snort, Acid, mrtg, NTOP, OpenNMS, nmap, nessus and rrdtool we want the user to have full control over every network or security aspect.
www.ossim.net
ahem - web page is down at the moment but details can be found at sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/pro
there is an iso for ossim put out by boseco
http://www.boseco.com/modu
Sitescope
www.mercury.com/sitescope
Has worked well for a few organisations I have been in.
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by: fatladPosted on 2004-09-01 at 08:32:00ID: 11953762
To monitor what?