Re: OT Cisco QoS Policy Manager

Hi,

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Ina&Laurean <ina.laurean_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone used this product and do you thing that is worth the money?

Disclaimer: My most recent experience is with QPM 4.0 -- I haven't had
a good look at QPM 4.1 yet.

I think that depends on how your network is managed.

If you've got a small network and/or a small team managing it, I don't
think you'll get much value from QPM. If you've got a large network
(read: a large number of devices) with lots of different people (with
different quality focus and attention to detail) managing it, QPM
might give you a level of control that is difficult to attain
'manually'.

It would be quite trivial to come up with a 'home grown' solution to
this without forking out $$ to Cisco for what is, like most of their
software offerings, a flaky product.

The real-time monitoring and threshold alerting it does is all based
on well-documented MIBs, so you could achieve the same thing with just
about any NMS.

cheers,
Dale

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Received on Thu May 28 2009 - 07:45:19 ART