Alternatives to nagios

[Christopher Chan]

Mark Miller wrote:
> I've been looking at Nagios as a possible network manager.  Someone on 
> the list mentioned there were others I might look at.  Everything I'm 
> finding on the net is pretty dated (2006-2007).


opennms if you are looking for a network manager...
>
> Here's my situation.
>
> I'm a high school English teacher who has a PC computer lab of 28 
> computers running 9.04.  The installation is brand new and we're just 
> starting to learn how to use it effectively.
>
> I would like to have a monitoring tool installed on the teacher 
> machine (it's not a server) that will "watch" the technical aspects of 
> all 28 systems.
What do you want to monitor?


This does not quite to seem to fall under network manager but if you let 
us know what you want to do, we can tell you what is available.