Monitoring Microsoft Exchange Server

Before deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 in a production environment, you should establish routine, automated monitoring and error detection strategies for your operating system and applications. Immediately detecting application and system errors increases your chances of resolving errors before the system shuts down. Monitoring can also help alert you of scalability needs. For example, if [...]

Storage Monitoring – ManageEngine OpStor

OpStor is a multi-vendor storage infrastructure monitoring tool offering unified Inventory, Fault and Peformance management for Storage Arrays, Fabric Switches, Tape Libraries, HBAs and Host servers through a webbrowser.Major devices supported are: EMC CLARiion/NetApp/HP-EVA/Hitachi HDS/StorageTek/IBM FastT/InforTrend/Areca ARC storage arrays,Brocade/EMC/McData/Cisco switches,Dell PV/ADIC/STK/Qualstar/IBM SLX Tape Libraries,QLogic/Emulex HBAs.

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Web-based Business Service Dashboards

The assystBSM Web Client delivers an integrated view, or “Dashboard” representing real-time and historical end-to-end Business Service availability, performance, security, and end-user experience. Regardless of the underlying technologies and management platforms deployed throughout your organization, assystBSM provides vital service health information direct to your Web browser, providing support staff with the ability to rapidly identify [...]

ESMGUY weblog

Working on new site -http://esmguy.wordpress.com/

Argent Predictor

The Argent Predictor is a comprehensive capacity planning, trend analysis and reporting solution. While monitoring the rate of consumption of critical resources, the Argent Predictor is able to produce graphs and analysis from any data source including disk space, CPU utilization, SQL log sizes, Exchange and IIS usage. Monitoring and truly understanding the workload a [...]

zabbix – 1.4

ZABBIX offers functionality that will make your IT resources look more transparent, and it will also help to easily identify performance and availability problems. ZABBIX greatly increases the productivity of system administrators by providing simple-to-use monitoring system.
Key features*Open Source solution*Runs on AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Tru64/OSF*SQL database for storing configuration, [...]

Book on SCOM 2007

Mastering System Center Operations Manager 2007
not released yet -http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-System-Center-Operations-Manager/dp/0470119306

Hardware Sentry monitors the health of your server…

Hardware Sentry monitors the health of your servers hardware within BMC Software® PATROL®. It’s a KM for PATROL: it needs to be installed on each managed server with a PATROL Agent, and then you can check the hardware components of your servers from any PATROL Console. The operators will be alerted as soon as a [...]

Monitoring hardware alerts with VMware ESX

With VMware ESX you can install the IBM Director according to the compatibility matrix (add link).The inband monitored events comprise everything that is surfaced by the service processor (either the Baseboard Management Controller through the openIPMI layer, or the Remote Supervisor Adapter through its device driver). These events can also be monitored out of band.
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Debunking the Top Ten Myths about Network Monitoring Systems

MYTH #1: The Product with the Most Features Must Be the Best.The Truth: Network monitoring “mega suite” vendors are notorious for drawing customers in withlarge feature sets—and then charging hefty consulting and training fees for systemsthat never get fully configured or deployed. Features don’t always translate to value,especially when it takes numerous IT specialists to [...]