Re: Network Monitoring

For sure I truely agree with you,
But trust me to really get the TRUE NMS reports and satisfy the management
is really difficult.

I know a one of the top three NMC products who end the project with the
Biggest ISP in Saudi in tatters as the ISP was asking for customizable
reports and that vendor end-up in bringing there SOFTWARE Developers who
actually developed the products to came down to the site and generate the
reports but at the end of the day software itself has it's own limitation
and project really finishes at the bad note. ( I m talking about biggest ISP
in middle east not any small bank and others as compare to ISP)

By no means I am saying that NMC prodcuts are useless but most of the time I
saw NMC product is used just like a solarwind products and other small
prodcuts.

 One should analyze the requirement throughly before going to the NMC
product and also clearly indicate the ROI of it.

If still someone has money and wants to utilize the NMC product so please go
a head and buy not only IBM Tivoli but also HP OpenView : )

2009/5/9 jockey wearer <jockeywearer_at_gmail.com>

> Dear Nasim ,
>
> Again I am telling to you it depeneds upon organization where money
> does not matter and cost of specialized engineer for NMS to generate
> monthly report and satisfied higher management to show the stability
> and productivitiy of their million dollar $ devices .
>
> Do you think in Big organization which run 24X7 and RnS/Security guy
> will monitor whole network and generate report ?
> I am sure as you are security guy you know basic configuration of
> BGP/OSPF but troubleshooting part and Multihoming solution for BGP is
> little bit difficult for you .
> thats why keeping specialized guy is not matter for that kind of
> organization to maintain it.
>
> Thanks
> Prashant .
>
>
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>
> On 5/9/09, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > We use Statseeker in a couple of managed networks --
> > http://www.statseeker.com
> >
> > It does a really good job, scales very well and is super easy to
> > integrate, but data is collected and reported in five minute
> > intervals.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Dale
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Muhammad Nasim
Network Engineer
Saudi Arabia
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