At Zenoss we do quite a bit of remote monitoring of computers running Windows. In the Enterprise edition of the product, we collect raw performance counter data using the conventional remote Windows Registry APIs. We ran into an issue recently with a customer running Windows 2000 where the data from the remote server was being …
Zenoss is an open-source infrastructure management product. Normally used by institutions to watch their networking and server infrastructure, it also is used in smaller, less mission-critical scenarios. Scenarios like mine: I want to monitor my home & home office infrastructure since it has grown over time to contain a fair number of devices. Without open-source …