Lightweight network monitoring program

[Ian Stokes-Rees]

On 2/28/11 10:18 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I
> need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, but
> I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a
> list of hosts periodically. I would like to run the monitoring software
> from either my Windows laptop of one of the network servers.

In my (admittedly very limited) experience, you think you just want
something simple and lightweight and then quickly discover you actually
need more and more features.  Nagios was designed for exactly this sort
of thing.  While it isn't a "15 minute" solution, the ~half a day you'd
spend getting a basic Nagios setup in place is probably worth it.

Ian