can anyone suggest a piece of software that could monitor a network to check if PCs are left on overnight for example?
suggest software?
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There are lots of network monitoring apps out there - but most take some serious fetling to get working, 99% of them require a dedicated PC / server rather than run on your desktop.
www.whatsupgold.com
springs to mind - but don't know how suitable it would be for you.
www.whatsupgold.com
springs to mind - but don't know how suitable it would be for you.
cant you ask someone whos smart to make a pinging program?
sort of think to ping a list of computers ever hour or so
and make a log
sort of think to ping a list of computers ever hour or so
and make a log
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they could just be taken off the network and left on though.
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How many computers are you wanting to monitor?
Check the event logs for 6006/6009 (startup/shutdown) messages. Most software will only check if the device is pingable or not. You need to interogate the event logs to see when it was up/down.
Check the event logs for 6006/6009 (startup/shutdown) messages. Most software will only check if the device is pingable or not. You need to interogate the event logs to see when it was up/down.
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it will prob be 1700+ machines that need monitoring, some of the subnet's there on wont reply via ping either coz there supressed...
theres a piece of software called nigh****chman which looks the biz but its far from free!
theres a piece of software called nigh****chman which looks the biz but its far from free!
I use some network monitoring tools at work but have not checked whether they have power options.
if you have HP hardwae then HP SIM is great.
I also use Centennial but i do not think it they have power details. worth a check though
EDIT: LOL @ Nightw@tchman and it being picked up as Tw@t
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Nagios, better than nigh****chman although harder to setup and its free. Also is fully customisable on what sort of tests you do I.e not just ping, it can test HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, SIP, all ICMP protocol's active directory pretty much everything.
Castlerock SNMPc Monitor.
Microsoft MOM.
Sloarwinds.
Microsoft MOM.
Sloarwinds.
