By Rob LaRose -
Can I take the group's temperature on network monitoring solutions? I'm looking for something that can keep me apprised of usage & availability stats over time of my render farm, file server, internet gateway, key servers, etc.
We've been using nagios for a while.. it's good, but a lot of do-our-own-work to make useful. We've been evaluating SolarWinds, which seems comprehensive, but doesn't seem to be able to show me the various kinds of data I want *together* in a mix-and-match dashboard-style view. Everything seems to be "Summary" or "Detail" and I really want some summary and some detail on the same dash.
I'm willing to spend $ -- that could mean a pay system that gives me what I want with a minimum of my own man-hours to set up, maintain, and add/change, or a free system with good paid support / configuration to get it set up and show me what I want to see. But it seems like many of the solutions are expensive-and-hard-to-use, or free-and-you're-on-your-own.
Anyone using one that they find useful/flexible, and aren't paying twice or being left entirely-to-your-own-devices with it?
--Rob