Free Technology Zone

Here’s an interesting product–Servers Alive.  It is a server monitoring solution with the following key features:

• extensive monitoring capabilities
• flexible alerting engine
• smart output
• graphical results
• agents-less for most monitoring; agents for secure monitoring

Note that it is free to try with full functionality and no expiration.

Servers Alive

If you happen to manage a network, and you can’t afford some of the most expensive network monitoring tools out there, check out The Dude.  This program will map out your network and provide alerts so that you can ensure your system components are always up.