It started as a smart home tool; now I want it to do everything.

I've been doing some searches on this topic and read a few threads here as well.I've read about Nagios, OpenNMS, Spiceworld, Cacti, MRTG, (...), but I don't know which one is best for my environment: ...

Computerworld recently showcased 10 great free network management tools. Readers responded with some of their own favorites, so I’m going to take a look at those tools and report on their capabilities ...

Do you mean to host or monitor? I agree it's a lot easier to run on *nix as the host, but I'm monitoring Windows Server machines with no agent required aside from the ...