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By Kevin Casey 12/14/2012 Stretch your IT budget with open source and free products and services. Added win: Open source tools' opportunity for customization.

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Nagios For Network Monitoring

Thorpe's a fan of Nagios' open-source IT monitoring platform for keeping tabs on what's happening on the network. "It's a great network and service monitoring system that allows avenues to monitor items that are not native with the application itself," he said. "You can monitor pretty much anything you want, and simply pass results to Nagios and have it react accordingly." Thorpe further recommended enhancing Nagios with other "puzzle pieces," including SmokePing, Cacti and NetDisco, for "a very comprehensive network monitoring solution."

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