Re: [Nolug] Open Source Managed Services?

From: Dustin Puryear <dustin_at_puryear-it.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:32:19 -0600
Message-ID: <47840803.5050901@puryear-it.com>

You can write custom plug-ins to work in a similar way in BB, etc. I
would think the value of Kaseya is that they've already done most of the
grunt work for you when writing their tool.

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Chris Jones wrote:
> Hey guys, take a look at this product:  http://www.kaseya.com
> 
> It's basically a "managed services" system, that lets you keep an eye on
> all your clients, kind of a cross between spyware and SNMP, where you
> install a little client app on every PC you manage, and they all report
> back to your central server.  You can then very easily view who is out
> of hard drive space, whose antivirus is expired, whose hard drive is
> having SMART errors, stuff like that.  Spot problems before they
> happen.  It's very useful, but an expensive investment to get into this
> sort of technology.  Now, what I'm wondering, is does anybody know of
> anything like this in the open source world?  Surely there's something
> out there like this...
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