Hi all – newb here.

We’re a Windows shop and I’m looking for something [free] that I could stand up to monitor various aspects of our servers. I’m specifically looking for something that can:

1. verify that servers are up [& responding]
2. verify services are up [& responding]
3. verify remote sites are up/accessible
4. monitor CPU & memory (warn when its above X% sustained for Y mins etc)
5. monitor latency between this site and the remote site
6. monitor disk usage (e.g.: warning when its down to 10% etc.)
7. monitor things like disk queue length (like performance monitor)
8. monitor exchange specific things like number of mailboxes left to crawl, oustanding batches & outstanding documents to index (again, like performance monitor)
9. monitor other things like IIS, BES, Lotus Notes, DFS, IronPort – custom services etc

I’m hoping for some sort of nifty frontend that others could have up on monitor/projector to keep an eye on general health & maybe highlight ‘problem’ areas.

I don’t know, but, I suspect I’ll need something like Nagios, SmokePing and/or Edoceo to tackle this. Since I have 0 experience with any of these, I figured checking with the community first might be best.

Many thanks!