3.50pm. This week I have mostly been installing and configuring up: Nagios.

Cutting straight to the verdict: awesome.

So it takes a little while to set-up, but once you have learnt the slightly odd templates/services/commands/hosts system its just a case of replication.

So far I have configured it to monitor:
* the majority of network printers,
* our Windows servers,
* our Linux servers,
* ....and a handful of procurve switches.

I did have to disable the alerts on the Network Printers as they became incredibly annoying when office staff were saving the planet by turning them off at night.

Next step is to gather more statistics from the linux servers, and monitor key fibre interfaces on the switches.