Network Monitoring and Alerting?

SpamMonkey asks: "At work I am trying to implement a central monitoring and alerting service. We have in excess of 250 Windows servers, approx 15 AIX servers and another 30 Linux servers (mainly SLES/Suse). My investigation into systems that will allow us to monitor critical areas on each of these systems has so far led me to a clustered Linux server running Nagios with passive and active checks. What I'm curious about though is how Slashdot readers are carrying out their own jobs and how they can comfortably sit back, without having to repeatedly check that various systems are still operational and how to cut down their own response times when something goes wrong."

Comments

Best type of network monitoring

[antifoidulus]

is still someone calling you up at 3 am screaming at you that the network is down and yelling at you to get your ass in there asap. Works every time!

Its Easy.

[MistabewM]

You blame the new hire. If there is more than one new hire you blame the one that spends his waking life playing everquest or .

As for preventitive mesures, you put the new hire in charge of the task and sit back and relax.

1st rule of managment is misdirection.