alternative to ws_watch

[Paul L]

hi team

i am looking for a 2011 alternative to the good'ol WS_WATCH circa 1995. 

there are a ton of good and free nms products out there today.  but need something simple and i dont want to have to mess around with code or mysql data bases.  it can be for windows or ubuntu

thanks in advance   

p

[Michael McNamara]

How large a deployment... what frequency would you like to poll the asset?

I've written my own home grown Perl script around fping since I'm monitoring around 1000 devices every 60 seconds.

I've heard good things of What's Up Gold and from Solarwinds suite of tools.

Cheers!

[Paul L]

Hi Mike

its just for my lab so I am aiming for "free".  To the best of my knowledge WhatsupGold and solar winds are COTS products $$$.

It would just be for less than 7 switches and routers, about 20 IP interfaces and a few computers.  It would never go above 40 nodes.   Its just something so I can watch IP/PING and any packet loss.  Having 17-25 DOS windows open on my desktop is not very efficient.

WS_WATCH actually works very well for my needs.  it polls every 5 seconds and turns all the nodes different 3 shades of Green, yellow a Red depending on the number of dropped or lost packets.   its just a simple .exe and saves the topology to a flat file. No databases to configure.

just sending out feelers if people are using something a little more modern but with the same simplicity.