Server Monitoring Tools

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Server Monitoring Tools
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Introduction:
Server management is defined as the process or a task or a service which is associated
with dealing with the servers so as to manage the server. Server management is mainly
associated with involving the monitoring, updating, setup and other activities. Monitoring is
mainly done upon the servers or the application which are running in the server which involves
the status, uptime, and monitoring of the new or the recurring issues [1]. Updating the servers
and the software which are installed in the server is also essential. There are different tools or
methodologies which are mainly used for the purpose of continuous monitoring along with
helping in overseeing the performance of the servers.
Server monitoring tools are associated with generation of the reports which helps in
having a comprehensive server health as well as the capacity and the performance which exists
in an operating environment [2]. The reports are associated with helping in a routine checkup of
the servers which in turn is associated with providing a pre-emptive warning related to the
working of the servers. This tools are associated with helping in tracking of the server activities.
IT monitoring tools and comparison:
There exists various type of monitoring tools and techniques so as to monitor the servers
and some of the most popular server monitoring tools have been listed below:
NagiosCore
This is one of the most famous server monitoring tool which can be customized very
easily and this is one of the cost-effective open server monitoring tool. The metrics provided by
the NagiosCore tool is mainly associated with performing a check upon the server along with

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reporting and remediation of the services[3]. The NagiosCore is also seen to be associated with
providing of monitoring features which are limited in nature.
Fig 1: Disk Usage
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Fig 2: Speed of the tool
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Fig 3: Process monitoring
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Fig 4: Overall availability

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Fig 5: Resource measuring
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Fig 6: CPU Monitoring
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Cacti
Cacti is the front end server monitoring tool which is also considered to be a graphing
tool that the data systems are having. This tool is seen to be having the capacity of managing the
processes associated with the collection of the data. The data gathering is generally done by
usage of the scripts which are external and are associated with feeding the metrics[5]. The graphs
which are generally produced is for any of the provided datasets. In addition to all this it is also
possible to create a graph easily by making use of the different elements of the infrastructure
which is also seen to be associated with the including of the servers as well as the load balancers.
Spiceworks
This is the server monitoring tools which is mainly associated with providing of insights
related to the servers, switches, services and the SNMP devices. SpiceWork is the server
monitoring tool associated with finding out of the IP addresses of the devices along with
providing of knowledge base and functions of the help desk.

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Fig 7: CPU monitoring
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