Re: Network Monitoring

<my .02>

Hey team,

For the price it is hard to beat solarwind's Orion. The software works
pretty darn good. Contact Solarwinds, tell them you are in a competitive
situation, and ask them: "Which solution should I choose?" See what they
can do for you ...

;-)

A few years ago when I used Tivoli, it was a full time chore ... not fun.
For sure, it was not 'set it and forget it' ... I do not know about now.

There is a bit too much on this page below ... a lot is offered to say the
least, but ... there might be something that meets your needs.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/

Good luck!

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Muhammad Nasim <muhammad.nasim_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Come on i Farrukh,
>
> It was a nightmare for me at one of my BIG client, I was doing the SNMP
> traps on the Swtiches and server and IBM Tivoli was doing nothing,
>
> Just showing me in the logs that one snmp traps received : ) hahah
>
>
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> 2009/5/9 Farrukh Haroon <farrukhharoon_at_gmail.com>
>
> > I hope you guys heard of SNMP traps :)
> >
> > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Bill Mckenzie <bmckenzie_at_hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Sure. Say this is a trading floor environment with external brokerage
> > > firms. If there is latency normally of 20ms and there is an issue that
> > > causes that to be 50ms or more for an amount of time, trading
> information
> > > may be invalid and someone could be looking for compensation. Today,
> > > Reactive troubleshooting must now be done to figure out what happened
> and
> > > traced back to network, server or application. With the 5 minute
> > trending,
> > > that is a process that may or may not produce a good answer. They are
> > aware
> > > of the impact of constant polling on the network.
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone using mb"Box Mail - http://mboxmail.com
> > >
> > > ________________________
> > >
> > > On 2009-05-09 08:21:46 -0400 Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps you could elaborate on the "Milliseconds delay can cost money
> > > > in this case" aspect, so people fully appreciate the requirement.
> It's
> > > > not as though collecting data every 5 minutes means you lose
> > > > visibility of everything that happens in between polling cycles, but
> > > > clearly interface stats like bits per second get averaged out.
> > > >
> > > > Have you considered the impact of such frequent polling, both in
> terms
> > > > of management traffic and managed device performance overhead?
> > > >
> > > > cheers,
> > > > Dale
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Bill Mckenzie <bmckenzie_at_hotmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > >> The critical needs are ability to scale but just as important,
> polling
> > > in
> > > >> 1/5/10 second intervals. Milliseconds delay can cost money in this
> > case,
> > > so
> > > >> it's very important for constant polling.
> > > >>
> > > >> On 2009-05-09 07:22:22 -0400 Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> 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.
> > >
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