Alternatives to nagios

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Mark Miller <mr.mcmiller at gmail.com> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> This would be something down the lines of Italc (which is a teacher-manager
> piece that allows control of the student desktops and broadcasting of
> activity on the teacher machine for the students to see) except that it
> would watch the technical side.
>
> I'm not a techie; I'm researching for the tech office.
>
> The teacher machine is also used by teachers (that's why it's called a
> teacher machine I guess) for their regular work.
>
> If this is making any sense, can you make any recommendations?  You'll need
> to speak slowly and use small words.
>
> As always, thanks in advance for your help.  I love this list.
>
> I'm running another copy of gmail in another window and just read the email
> about not using html.  Sorry if this one causes problems; I'll do better in
> the future.
>
> mcm
>
>
Take a look at :
 http://www.canonical.com/projects/landscape


Thanks,
Raseel
http://raseel.in
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