I can't imagine monitoring 1000's of devices with WhatsUp Professional or Adventnet OpManager or any other "retail" box-off-the-shelf product. And the idea that there aren't commercial support options available for open source products like Nagios / OpenNMS / Zenoss is simply ridiculous. Show me any available commercial or open source solution that can monitor 1000's of devices on a single server effectively - it doesn't exist ! For large numbers of devices you need distributed monitoring and unless you have more cash than Bill G, forget about OpenView or Unicenter etc. Find a reputable company that will provide you with an open source based solution. In the long run you will get a better return on investment from open source than closed, proprietary software.
To manage Windows boxes via SNMP, try http://www.wtcs.org/informant/wmi-os/overview.htm SNMP Informant - WMI-OS Agent
Supporting SETS, the WMI-OS version allows you to remotely:
* query service state
* start/stop/pause services
* remotely execute programs
* shutdown/restart servers
For a network like yours, you do not want to "do it yourself" with Nagios. Nagios is the best network monitoring package available, but unless you have a full-time system admin dedicated to it, you will be in a world of pain. A better plan would be to look at Groundwork Monitor Professional (www.groundworkopensource.com). The core of GMP is Nagios, but Groundwork have added plenty of integration goodness (profiles of service checks for particular servers: got an Exchange box but don't know which services to monitor; no problem, just use the Exchange profile containing all of the important service checks for Exchange). Full GUI configuration, SNMP traps, graphing, the whole shebang. US$16,000 a year for unlimited devices plus support. Get Sheila at Groundwork to walk you through a Webex presentation and download Rich Trezza's VMware appliance from http://richard.trezza.us/vmach/index.html The VM only contains the basic open source functionality, but it still kicks any available Nagios configuration package.
If you want to run FWBuilder on Windows, install Cygwin/X. SSH to the firewall (with X11 forwarding turned on) and you are in business. I bet you could set this up with keys etc to the point that you could double click an icon on the Windows desktop and Firewall Builder would display in the Cygwin/X window.
Hard to see how Amiga can rise above the rest of the crowd unless they come up with something spectacular; what with Intel, AMD and Transmeta staking out the processor / hardware end of town and Microsoft / MacOS / Linux (various flavors) staking out the OS end. Someone should remind Amiga that the world is a very different place to the 1980s ! Amiga had its opportunity to break new ground, but instead chose to cling to the past.
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I can't imagine monitoring 1000's of devices with WhatsUp Professional or Adventnet OpManager or any other "retail" box-off-the-shelf product. And the idea that there aren't commercial support options available for open source products like Nagios / OpenNMS / Zenoss is simply ridiculous. Show me any available commercial or open source solution that can monitor 1000's of devices on a single server effectively - it doesn't exist ! For large numbers of devices you need distributed monitoring and unless you have more cash than Bill G, forget about OpenView or Unicenter etc. Find a reputable company that will provide you with an open source based solution. In the long run you will get a better return on investment from open source than closed, proprietary software.
To manage Windows boxes via SNMP, try http://www.wtcs.org/informant/wmi-os/overview.htm SNMP Informant - WMI-OS Agent
Supporting SETS, the WMI-OS version allows you to remotely: * query service state * start/stop/pause services * remotely execute programs * shutdown/restart servers
For a network like yours, you do not want to "do it yourself" with Nagios. Nagios is the best network monitoring package available, but unless you have a full-time system admin dedicated to it, you will be in a world of pain. A better plan would be to look at Groundwork Monitor Professional (www.groundworkopensource.com). The core of GMP is Nagios, but Groundwork have added plenty of integration goodness (profiles of service checks for particular servers: got an Exchange box but don't know which services to monitor; no problem, just use the Exchange profile containing all of the important service checks for Exchange). Full GUI configuration, SNMP traps, graphing, the whole shebang. US$16,000 a year for unlimited devices plus support. Get Sheila at Groundwork to walk you through a Webex presentation and download Rich Trezza's VMware appliance from http://richard.trezza.us/vmach/index.html
The VM only contains the basic open source functionality, but it still kicks any available Nagios configuration package.
Try dotproject.
http://www.dotproject.net
Not yet the equal of M$ Project, but given time...
If you want to run FWBuilder on Windows, install Cygwin/X. SSH to the firewall (with X11 forwarding turned on) and you are in business. I bet you could set this up with keys etc to the point that you could double click an icon on the Windows desktop and Firewall Builder would display in the Cygwin/X window.
Hard to see how Amiga can rise above the rest of the crowd unless they come up with something spectacular; what with Intel, AMD and Transmeta staking out the processor / hardware end of town and Microsoft / MacOS / Linux (various flavors) staking out the OS end. Someone should remind Amiga that the world is a very different place to the 1980s ! Amiga had its opportunity to break new ground, but instead chose to cling to the past.