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RamblingGeek

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Does anyone know the name of the software that Steve uses to monitor his data centre? I think it send's constant pings and reports when they don't reply... I think it was Windows based.

Thanks in advance.
 
There are many different solutions that do this (and more). The first open source ones that come to mind: Nagios, Icinga, Shinken and Zabbix.
 
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I dredged up the word SmokePing from deep in my memory. But, I don't remember whether I heard about it on SN or found it myself. Anyway, thought I'd pass it along in case it's useful. I haven't tried it though.


I dug up the address for Ping Plotter. At least in the past, they did have a free version. I haven't checked lately.


Ron
 
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