Hello, Does anyone know some cheap and effective server monitoring systems with UK SMS alerting or email notification. I have around 40 servers that need monitoring, 3 HTTP servers, 8 or so mySQL databases. I would like toknow tried and tested sites, not new and upcoming personal scripts you may have made.
Have a gander at basicstate.com The page of known sms carriers with free gateways we can reach is on the sms carriers page. The service is free and unlimited. Sample clients list .
Check this site out too. I use this for my sites. But they are a bit expensive. http://www.internetseer.com/
We use OpManager to monitor over 1,000 servers. It can monitor any port, applications, hard drive usage, CPU etc etc. Nagios is another piece of software we use and is very popular with the bigger data centres. Great thing is that its free. http://www.nagios.org/
Look at the Opmanager solution, it works well with Windows boxes. We implement Clickatell into it as an SMS gateway giving us more options when it comes to getting notified of downtime.