Zabbix is one of the top tools available today for network monitoring and management. However, it comes with its own shortcomings as well and we’re going to go over some of the top alternatives to Zabbix below, but first lets see some areas we can improve on. Some of the possible shortcomings are: Requires quite […]

Finding an Alternative to Nagios shouldn’t be difficult and cumbersome – So we came up with a list of the Top Nagios Replacements that will help you get monitoring Quickly!

Solarwinds and Nagios XI are two SNMP monitoring suites, that offer a wide array of tools and features for making Network Monitoring & Management simple and efficient. This article will compare the two, and outline performance in key subject areas. The current version of Solarwinds at the time this article is written is 12.2. The […]

We’ve compared many programs with each other and we noticed that PRTG vs Nagios is a popular comparison that many are looking to breakdown. Here’s our Analysis of the two network monitoring giants.

Generally speaking, one can break down the life-cycle of a Network into three parts: Design Implementation/Configuration Support/Maintenance Network Monitoring falls under the 3rd part of this life-cycle. It allows you to keep an eye on the devices in your network (routers, switches, servers, applications, etc.) so that you can take appropriate actions in the event […]

Xps shows *nix processes as a tree. The status is indicated by color. Compile and run: u-1@srv-1 xps $ ls xps-4.2.tar.gz u-1@srv-1 xps $ tar -xzf *.gz u-1@srv-1 xps $ cd xps* u-1@srv-1 xps-4.2 $ u-1@srv-1 xps-4.2 $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install… /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane… yes checking for […]