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Monitoring Software: Which is best?
The environment is as follows:
1) Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition that hosts 9 Virtual Machines (5 are 2008 R2, 3 are 2012 R2, and one is a linux appliance)
Here's my wishlist:
1) Monitor my servers and let me know if anything is in the red (memory, cpu usage, etc)
2) All me to do some reporting and pull metric information and do forecasting (being able to graph/chart would be a plus)
3) Cost needs to be reasonable (I can make a business justification to management if need be)
4) View the logs data on each server
5) Be lightweight, and not be a complete drag on the host system. I'd prefer the monitoring software be installed on the host machine and monitor the VMs from there
6) Trying to avoid a cloud based solution due to security constraints
Any help or recommendations you can provide would be helpful! Thank you!
1) Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition that hosts 9 Virtual Machines (5 are 2008 R2, 3 are 2012 R2, and one is a linux appliance)
Here's my wishlist:
1) Monitor my servers and let me know if anything is in the red (memory, cpu usage, etc)
2) All me to do some reporting and pull metric information and do forecasting (being able to graph/chart would be a plus)
3) Cost needs to be reasonable (I can make a business justification to management if need be)
4) View the logs data on each server
5) Be lightweight, and not be a complete drag on the host system. I'd prefer the monitoring software be installed on the host machine and monitor the VMs from there
6) Trying to avoid a cloud based solution due to security constraints
Any help or recommendations you can provide would be helpful! Thank you!
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Hyper-V is fine in PRTG too -- there are also pre-built sensors for Hyper-V.
How about deploying Spiceworks ?
http://www.spiceworks.com
It is freeware and got plenty of plugins.
http://www.spiceworks.com
It is freeware and got plenty of plugins.
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How about deploying Spiceworks ?
http://www.spiceworks.com
It is freeware and got plenty of plugins.
I've tried that in the past, and it doesn't have the ability to produce any reports and doesn't collect any data - it was also a bit of a system hog
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Hey Kim,
Do you know if there is any way to use more than one set of credentials for WMI purposes? I have two domains on the host server, and need to be able to monitor on both sides. However, I've only found one place to enter credentials at the root and it just inherits from top to bottom and I have one server that doesn't like that when using WMI (cpu load, free disk space, memory, pagefile usage, etc).
Other than that, this tool is working out pretty well
Do you know if there is any way to use more than one set of credentials for WMI purposes? I have two domains on the host server, and need to be able to monitor on both sides. However, I've only found one place to enter credentials at the root and it just inherits from top to bottom and I have one server that doesn't like that when using WMI (cpu load, free disk space, memory, pagefile usage, etc).
Other than that, this tool is working out pretty well
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Got it! Thank you, that was helpful.
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Going to leave this open for a couple of more days and see if I get any more responses. Appreciate the responses so far! These look great, can't wait to try them out.