Best In Class

[Brian]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 07:39, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> Mixture of Windows, Unix and Linux systems, the person needs to do these
> things over the net, preferably with a graphical interface.
> 

Over the Internet, or over an intranet?  Are there concerns for
reliability/timliness (ie in real-time?)

> Workload Monitoring 

Workload of what?  CPU time?

> User Activity Monitoring 

Activity of what?  Keystrokes?  Surfing? etc...

> Automated Monitoring of Log Files
> Process Monitoring
> 
> ideally you could also do this:
> 
> Application Resource Management
> Performance Management
> Availability Management 
> Directory and File Management
> 
> Are there any packages out there, either freeware or proprietary that do
> much of these things?
> 
> Don't spend a lot of time on this, it is an "exercise" that I am doing.

Nagios immediately comes to mind in that it can a lot of
uptime/logfile/process monitoring type stuff, and can be extended to
monitor/report on just about anything.  http://www.nagios.org/  Big
Brother may (or may not) also suit some or all of the criteria:
http://bb4.com/