Nagios, Nagios, and Nagios. That answers the 3 requirements. Well the third can be done with a few addon programs. Several larger ISP's that I deal with use it. As well as a large adult company I used to work for. They monitor almost 300 machines with 2 nagios servers. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 12:16, Jerry Westrick wrote:

Hello Don Gurus...

I'm looking to install a network monitoring and system stats tool. on 5 independent office networks. All are served by SUSE servers.

A quick check of the SUSE delivered tools I find:

argus, big sister, mon, and nagios

Now I'm a SUSE fan 'cause of all the preconfigured software, but...

What I'm looking for is :

- I would like the people inside each (office) network to be able to view their statics localy, (20%)

- I'd like to have a system at my office to monitor the remote networks, with notification of error conditions (30%).

- the system stats should include historical charts of server (linux) CPU/DISK usage. (30%)

The rest is nice to have, cosmetics, ease of configuration etc.

Now to my questions:

Can anybody out there share his/her experience with one or more of these tools, to help me decide on which to evaluate?

all tips, warnings, experience appreciated....

Jerry