The thing about nagios is that you can write your own plugins no matter what you want it to do. If you can figure out a way to test it with a perl script, or any other language, you can write a nagios plugin. And it's always worthwhile to see if someone has already written the plugin. Plugins are usually posted to a site called nagios exchange. I'm not sure how commercial monitoring systems work but one of the most useful plugins for nagios uses snmp, simple network monitoring protocol. So it doesn't really matter what OS is on the machine you are monitoring as long as it uses that standard protocol. I am not necessarily recommending nagios because i have no idea how it compares to other open source solutions or commercial products. But in my department, we use nagios for everything, I have it watching for when a student turns off one of the computers in the lab and turns it back on. It even calls my cell phone in a real emergency and uses the festival speech synth to tell me what's wrong. On 03/08/14 13:49, Darragh Ó Héiligh wrote:

Greetings,

What server monitoring applications do you use? Both payed and unpayed suggestions are welcome.

I've eused whats up gold very effectively in the past.

I haven't had great success with Nageos with Windows machines but this is possibly due to not giving it enough time to learn about everything.

Thanks

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