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Unified monitoring system

One of the "must have" things for effective systems administration is a centralised monitoring system for things such as down servers and network components, services, CPU, and disk utilisation, etc, etc.

Here, we have dithered around with a number of tools including HP OpenView, IPSentry, HP SIM, and others. It was so messy that I installed a private copy of Nagios so that I could at least get the critical OpenVMS systems under monitoring.

Now it looks like we are making a sustained push to standardise on NimSoft. While this is a MS based product, as long as it works, and centralises all monitoring, I'll be happy.