Recommendations for home network monitoring

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#271684 22-May-2020 11:10

Hi all,

As my home network grows I want to ensure everything works, and I don't become 'home network support' 24 x 7. I am looking for something that can monitor the network, nothing fancy, something like:

* Ping machines to make sure they are on the network
* SSH (or similar) to make sure services are running on machines (by port)
* Disk space
* Email alerts (I run my own email server on premise, it's on a UPS)
* Maybe alerts from the UPS (It can take network card)

I have 3 servers (2 x Windows Server 2016, 1 x Untangle) and a couple of desktops to monitor. I have looked at Pulseway, but I cannot see how that would work if the gateway (Untangle) goes down. I was thinking of a Pi was a battery backup. I looked at NetPi+ but this seems more of a diagnostic tool than actively monitoring and alerting.

Of course, if I could also make an awesome Grafana dashboard, that would be awesome bonus points :-)

What do people on geekzone use?

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#2489319 22-May-2020 11:13

https://www.netxms.org/

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#2489452 22-May-2020 13:35

Spyware:

https://www.netxms.org/

Thanks! That looks very comprehensive! Including Grafana support! Shame it needs a PC over a Pi, but I can run it in a VM, anotehr weekend project! @Spyware - have you used this product yourself? If so, any feedback?

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#2489455 22-May-2020 13:39

Quite a fan of PRTG myself. Its free up to 100 sensors. Needs Windows to run on, though.

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#2489766 22-May-2020 18:39

Netxms server and agent can be installed under raspbian buster https://www.netxms.org/documentation/adminguide/installation.html

deb http://packages.netxms.org/raspbian/ buster main

I migrated from Nagios to Netxms.

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#2493133 27-May-2020 20:20

Librenms is nice and simple, just what you need for a small one-off setup.

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#2493169 27-May-2020 21:13

https://icinga.com/ is another open source option (which I am using on my home network). Can get pretty complex but does the basics as well. Warning: monitoring is addictive...

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#2493685 28-May-2020 14:19

Thanks everyone for all the replies, so many products I didn't know about!

https://icinga.com/subscription/ - had a look but it gives no pricing (I have to request a quote) and it seems I have to have a subscription to use it. So will skip this one unless I can work it out.

https://www.netxms.org/ - I will probably start with this one, as a Pi option.

https://www.librenms.org/ - seems to be Linux only with no Pi option? Or Virtualbox, which I don't run. So will skip unless someone can tell me it has Pi support (I am a Windows person, not Linux)

https://www.paessler.com/prtg - Windows (only?) and free up to 100 sensors. Will also try this one, as a Windows option.

Something else I decided on as a requirement, I PROBABLY want to start with an agentless monitoring. Although as @SumnerBoy points out it could be addictive and could lead to needing agents (I already spend way too much time tweaking my XProtect install so know what they mean).