3 Network-Monitoring Systems

摘要

At the midsized company I work for, we've been using an older network-monitoring system for about seven years. It gives our administrators basic up or down information about servers and services, and it sends SMS (text message) and phone alerts to our cell phones in the event of problems. I decided it was time to upgrade or at least add a more current tool that could provide improved performance and detailed status information about our Exchange Server, SQL Server, and Terminal Server systems on the network at an affordable price. I came up with three viable candidates: Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold Premium, ManageEngine's OpManager Professional, and SolarWinds' ipMonitor. All three of these network monitors cost less than $3,000 (for 100 devices) and are available for trial periods so that you can test drive them for yourself. Let's see how they stack up.