Comments on: FREE: EventSentry Light – Real-time event log monitoring

By: refurbished computers

refurbished computers — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:36:35 +0000

Great tools for monitoring solutions. After i will read this i will start to test few.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:15:39 +0000

I wouldn’t compare EvenSentry with Nagios. Both tools are great monitoring solutions, but for different purposes and environments. EventSenty focuses on Windows event log monitoring. Nagios is a general monitoring solution for Linux environments.

By: Vili

Vili — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:12:18 +0000

I don’t know of any good port of it for Windows. You can just monitor Windows machines, not install Nagios on a Windows machine.
At work we are provided Nagios as a service by a company owned by IBM.
If you don’t want a physical Linux box just for Nagios, one workaround could be to get a Linux VM in VPC 2007 and install it there. I haven’t done that myself, but I might give it a try in a couple of months.
There are some pretty good guides about here http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart.html
From the screen shots, EventSentry Light has a good user interface for setting it up.
In the end it gets to be considering the trade-offs (time to set up, functionality and ease of use) and seeing which solution is better for your use.

By: Soeren P

Soeren P — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:51:17 +0000

Vili: Could you point to a good (compiled) Nagios for Windows? I have heard about it but havent tried it yet…

By: Vili

Vili — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:19:29 +0000

How about Nagios? You get get the full tool for free and you only pay for support.