What is the Best Way to Monitor Server Temperature?
You can try an inexpensive room monitor such as the one from Temperature Alert . We started using it after our air conditioner kept breaking down on us. Comparing this one to others was a no-brainer since this one is much less expensive. I wish I could customize the report graphs but it's still good.
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If you could only monitor 10 SQL Server 2005 counters, what would they be?
Yes, this is rather subjective, but I am doing research on that matter and am curious to see if others have come to the same conclusions that I have. So, I ask, if you could only monitor 10 SQL Server 2005 counters, what would they be?
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Easy methods of constantly monitoring health of many servers?
I generally think of health as fans, power, temperature, etc. If you are using dell servers, open manage can help with that. Nagios allows you to write your own plugins in whatever language, it just uses the exit status of the script. It is possible to tie open manage in with Nagios as well.
Nagios does have a web interface, and there are web interfaces that allow you to configure Nagios. But Nagios set up is not all that easy in general.
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What is the best way to monitor a production server?
I configured Zabbix on a virtual machine at Slicehost and have been quite pleased with the solution. Since it's physically seperate from our production servers it will alert me even if the production network has issues. The virtual machine at Slicehost is cheap and easy to backup.
Zabbix is great because it can monitor website response time and also cpu, disk, and just about anything else. Zabbix will store historical data so you can see how stats trend over time. I also prefer Zabbix over Nagios because Zabbix has a powerful web based configuration interface.
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Easy methods of constantly monitoring health of many servers?
I generally think of health as fans, power, temperature, etc. If you are using dell servers, open manage can help with that. Nagios allows you to write your own plugins in whatever language, it just uses the exit status of the script. It is possible to tie open manage in with Nagios as well.
Nagios does have a web interface, and there are web interfaces that allow you to configure Nagios. But Nagios set up is not all that easy in general.
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