Deploy services quickly with prebuilt virtual appliances


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Deploy services quickly with prebuilt virtual appliances

By Scott Lowe, Special to ZDNet Asia
Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:24 PM


  There are free, as well as paid, virtual appliances available to meet most needs, which are easy to set up and helps you avoid the hassle of installing a system on your own.

Whenever it makes sense, I like to let other people do my work for me.

Case in point: Our old MRTG-based network monitoring system has fallen into a woeful state at Westminster College. It's still monitoring, but needs a whole lot of attention to be truly useful again. I love MRTG (multi-router traffic grapher) and its pretty graphs. However, when I started to look at the amount of work that would be required to really bring our MRTG monitoring system back from the abyss, I cringed a bit.

So, being the typical IT guy, I turned to Google for a solution.

Over the years, I've installed and played with just about every open source network and server monitoring system out there and, after looking around a bit last week, decided that Cacti would be a reasonable replacement for our existing MRTG-only system. Cacti provides an easier administrative experience than a bare bones MRTG installation.

However, I really didn't want to go through building the whole setup on either Linux or Windows.

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