Open-source might not be the first thing you think of with Windows, but these free tools can seriously boost your productivity.

Enter the latest salvo in this war: Zenoss Core 2, an enterprise-class open source monitoring package that has been built from the ground up to replace complex, closed source monitoring solutions.

In a follow-up article, I will describe how I installed Zabbix and monitored Windows and Linux systems. What Is Zabbix Zabbix is a powerful and flexible open-source monitoring software solution ...

There are templates to monitor a wide variety of devices, from Linux and Windows servers to Cisco routers and switches — basically anything that speaks SNMP.

(Image by LoganArt from Pixabay ) The use of open source time series database monitoring has helped a European satellite firm, Open Cosmos, meet a unique challenge: supporting a computer in orbit, ...

SQL Monitor collects Windows machine metrics using WMI queries, for example, and is agentless, which reduces the load on the servers being monitored.

It has a few open source products running on Windows, including a network service called OpenSLP (Service Location Protocol). “Where we see room for improvement is in the installers.

Angry IP Scanner is a free and open-source IP monitoring tool for Windows. Let’s take a look at the tool that can save you time. IP monitoring tool for Windows ...