The solution is real simple. If you can program in anything then Hobbit/Xymon with Devmon is your only choice.
Create your own Weather Map for 2D, you never need a full 2D map of 5000 hosts... Less is more.
1. Free
2. Fully customizable
3. Easy administration
4. Offers clients for all the major OS (And quite a few minor ones)
5. Large support base (Users with high technical level)
6. Nice author (Replies to comments and considers all ideas)
7. You can write a test for anything you can think of and easily add it into hobbit
8. Offers client/server montoring, remote monitoring, script monitoring, snmp monitoring(devmon) or scripts
The possibilities with Hobbit are endless
Personally I use Hobbit to monitor over 2400 devices, including Cisco hardware, AIX, Windows Servers, VMware Clusters, Exchange, Sharepoint etc.etc.etc.etc.
I've never encountered a system I could not monitor with Hobbit (Or scripts that send their results into hobbit).
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The solution is real simple. If you can program in anything then Hobbit/Xymon with Devmon is your only choice.
Create your own Weather Map for 2D, you never need a full 2D map of 5000 hosts... Less is more.
1. Free
2. Fully customizable
3. Easy administration
4. Offers clients for all the major OS (And quite a few minor ones)
5. Large support base (Users with high technical level)
6. Nice author (Replies to comments and considers all ideas)
7. You can write a test for anything you can think of and easily add it into hobbit
8. Offers client/server montoring, remote monitoring, script monitoring, snmp monitoring(devmon) or scripts
The possibilities with Hobbit are endless
Personally I use Hobbit to monitor over 2400 devices, including Cisco hardware, AIX, Windows Servers, VMware Clusters, Exchange, Sharepoint etc.etc.etc.etc.
I've never encountered a system I could not monitor with Hobbit (Or scripts that send their results into hobbit).