Monitoring Desktops and Laptops with NPM?

whobrokeit

Hello all

I am being gently encouraged (pressured) to investigating adding 3000 laptops/desktops (with dynamic addresses) to NPM, so our helpdesk can pro-actively find issues with low disk space and CPU utilization etc on end user devices. This would need to be WMI based.

I am thinking NPM is not the right tool for this, the load on the server would be massive, and managing 3000 dynamic devices would be a complete pain for them.

Is there a better product out there for this? Perhaps agent-based? Are there any more rock-solid reasons i can throw out there not to do this?

Thanks in advance!

smiffy85

You can do that with User Device Tracker (we are now)

Although, why would you report on end user devices for Disk Space? Surely they are all saving to the network share so it is backed up? Even CPU utilisation is a stretch really, its just going to generate a lot of work for very little gain.

Have a look at UDT though, it has some excellent features.