What monitoring tools do you recommend?

As a hosting company, we see how frustrating it can be for our clients when a piece of hardware fails on a device, so we highly recommend that our client’s regularly monitor the health of their devices and check for any errors within their server’s hardware. There are several different third party tools available which are designed to help server administrators monitor and check the health of their devices; some of which we recommend our customers install and use.

What monitoring tool is best for your server depends on the make and model of the server and the operating system it uses. Please see below for some examples of tools we would recommend that you use.

Please note that these tools are developed by third parties and we can only advise you to use these tools; the choice to download, install and use these tools must be your own. As such, iomart and any company within the iomart group are not responsible for any harm that may come to your system as a result of downloading, installing and using these tools.

Server Manufacture	Monitoring Tool / Software Name	Monitoring Tool / Software Description
Dell EMC PowerEdge	iDRAC	iDRAC is Dell’s version of a Remote Management tool. Depending on the version of iDRAC, it can allow the server’s administrator to check the health of the server, to check individual components status, to run tasks on the server and to start a remote/virtual console. It works independently of the server’s OS.
OMSA	OMSA is a system administrative tool; that allows the system administrator to check the health of the server and some of its components. OMSA runs on the server’s operating system and is only compatible with certain operating systems, on certain Dell PowerEdge servers
HPE ProLiant	iLO	iLO is HPE’s version of a Remote Management tool. Depending on the version of iLO, it can allow the server’s administrator to check the health of the server, to check individual components status, to run tasks on the server and to start a remote/virtual console. It works independently of the server’s OS.
SuperMicro	IPMI	IMPI is SuperMicro’s version of a Remote Management tool. IPMI can allow the server’s administrator to check the health of the server, to run tasks on the server and to start a remote/virtual console. It works independently of the server’s OS.

If you do decide to use any of the above monitoring tools, they can help you check the health of your system and help identify any components that may need investigating or replacing. If they do alert you to any problems, please raise a support ticket using the information found in our FAQ and we will be happy to help.

If you have any more questions about monitoring tools, please see our FAQ section. If this does not have the answer you are looking for, please raise a ticket and we will be happy to help.