System admin looking for linux advice

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Timbowens

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HI guys, The network I run is server 2003, but from what I've been reading linux really has some great monitoring tools.

I've got this box sitting around just begging me to put linux on it so I was wondering what flavor you guys recommend.

Pardon me if I seem noobish, I haven't had much experience with Linux.
 
I sugguest Nagios for your monitoring. As far as flavor of Linux. It doesn't matter. They all do the same things. Debian has nice package management, CentOS is used in a lot of places for Enterprise grade (equivilent of Red Hat Enterprise Server). The only one I usually suggest staying away from for new users is Gentoo. I'm also not as fond of Suse, but that is political reasons for the most part.
 
Rakinos said:
What exactly do you want to accomplish with the box?
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I'd like to know what every single packet on my network is and where it is going, with logging and what not :D

I really want to make sure the network is performing at it's best, but it wouldn't hurt if I had the ability to see, well, everything.
 
you can try also this tools which are good for Linux monitoring. The first one is professionals monitoring service with 5 minutes check interval, the second one is free service with 30 minutes interval. Here are the links to these tools: http://www.monitis.com and http://mon.itor.us.
 
Dude....just use Wireshark. Formerly known as Ethereal. Not trying to get you away from Linux by any means but I believe Wireshark will give you all the info you need.
 
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