RE: OT: what enterprise NMS-es you find useful?

Hi Dale,

It all depends on what you want to monitor, how you want to do that and
more importantly how fat your wallet is. For an organization with a
decent budget certainly Openview is a nice solution; for smaller
networks you might wish to consider a solution like Solarwinds (very
flexible in terms of licensing) and for non-critical networks there are
heaps of open source applications out there. Personally I never
recommend an open source NM to my customers because when they really
need an NM they usually need to "talk" to someone on the phone :) just
sort o peace of mind ;)

But once again they are not exactly the same and you have to consider
your 1-budget 2-requirements 3-network size 4-support that you need.

HTH

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Dale Shaw
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:11 PM
To: Green Packets
Cc: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OT: what enterprise NMS-es you find useful?

Hi,

On Sunday, May 16, 2010, Green Packets <greenpackets_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in the market for Enterprise-level NMS software and looking for
> input as which ones you find it useful in doing your day-to-day

Have a look through the list archives; it wasn't too long ago that
this topic was covered.

I'm personally not a fan of the big NMS players like HP and
IBM/Tivoli. Too expensive, too complex.

Cheers
Dale

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Received on Sat May 15 2010 - 18:21:37 ART