Where I work at the moment we use What's Up Gold! (stupid name, vaguely-OK product) to monitor our systems. We're doing it fairly naively at the moment, just looking at network-availability of services, but I know that coupled with Net-SNMP on our Solaris machines we *could* do more sophisticated checks. I'm in the low-vision camp so can't comment on how well it works with screen-readers. Have also worked with Nagios filling the same role. Because we're primarily a Solaris shop I haven't had to muck about with a VPN -- most of what I do is text-based so I just ssh into our network and go from there, with a port forwarded for Windows RDC so I can get at Outlook. But at my last place we used Cisco VPN gear and that worked fairly well -- when connected to the VPN my home desktop machine had exactly the same network permissions/etc as my desktop at the office. Matt Andrew Hodgson wrote:
Hi,
Very quiet here at the moment, and there are plenty of members.
Just kicking off a topic which I have had to deal with recently.
Has anyone used any remote monitoring/diagnostic software, that if a specific problem (possibly using an API to communicate with a bespoke application to trigger events) occurs, that it will email or send an alert? How successful have these been?
The other issue, have any of you worked any on call system, and if so, how did you arrange transport to work if required? I am trying to avoid it now, but we may have to go down this road, using remote VPN where possible.
Thanks.
Andrew.
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