> I'm thinking of setting up Nagios to monitor a few boxes that I like to > keep > a close eye on but also wanted to see if there were alternatives that > other > people like better network/service monitoring. Otherwise I'm also keen to > hear any success or horror stories with Nagios implementations. There is a free windows solution on the mikro-tik web site, called "The Dude". It is very simple to set up, and discovers all your network devices on its own. You simply remove what you don't care about, and configure the type of alerts you would like to receive.