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

Well, it depends.

First off, it depends on what you wanna purchase (certainly not
everything they have in the suite!) and who's going to sell that. Every
piece of the package as far as I know has its own price.

Please see this
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=hp+openview+price&um=1&ie=UTF-8&e
i=DKXvS9SzLoSmswOIzcneDw&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&
ved=0CCsQrQQwAA

But at the end of the day it's like Cisco or Juniper boxes, through a
good negotiation process you can get a good price; but if you're just
looking at Cisco monitoring you can probably get away with just a small
% of the HP/IBM price.

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Kambiz Agahian
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-----Original Message-----
From: Green Packets [mailto:greenpackets_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:39 AM
To: Kambiz Agahian
Cc: Dale Shaw; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OT: what enterprise NMS-es you find useful?

Thanks Kambiz for sharing your insights on HP OpenView.

I was told that unless my budget is in 6 digits (hw+sw+consultant
fee), I should forget about HP OpenView solution. Is it a fair
statement?

After all these years, is HPOV still the latest and greatest tool to
manage cisco-based environment?

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Kambiz Agahian
<kagahian_at_ccbootcamp.com> wrote:
> Hi Dale,
>
> Probably the most important reason that many large enterprise networks
> consider the HP software is that it's like an umbrella covering a huge
> range of applications/services. From Microsoft Exchange to SAP,
Citrix,
> VMWare, Oracle, Blackberry or IBM DB2 they're all supported using HP
> smart plug ins. Lots of performance agents and Storage
> management/monitoring tools make it easy to manage an enterprise
network
> (usually!).
>
> AFAIK they do offer various licensing options.
>
> My recommendation? Call your local HP office (or your AM) and ask for
a
> Presentation; they're usually more than happy to come by and present
> what they have to offer. You can also seek some help in tailoring the
> best possible package for your network.
>
> Training? The software is not very easy to navigate and manage but
they
> do offer some training and the good news is you usually don't have to
do
> lots of config stuff after installation.
>
> HTH
>
> PS. You might wish to take a look at this (some links are a bit
outdated
> though)
>
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=hp+openview+site%3Acisco.com&aq
> =f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=c78e48b898b2787e
>
>
> --------------------------
> Kambiz Agahian
> CCIE (R&S), CCSI, WAASSE, RSSSE
> Technical Instructor
> CCBOOTCAMP - Cisco Learning Solutions Partner (CLSP)
> Email: kagahian_at_ccbootcamp.com
> Toll Free: 877-654-2243
> International: +1-702-968-5100
> Skype: skype:ccbootcamp?call
> FAX: +1-702-446-8012
> YES! We take Cisco Learning Credits!
> Training And Remote Racks: http://www.ccbootcamp.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Shaw [mailto:dale.shaw_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:36 PM
> To: Kambiz Agahian
> Cc: Green Packets; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: OT: what enterprise NMS-es you find useful?
>
> Hi Kambiz,
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Kambiz Agahian
> <kagahian_at_ccbootcamp.com> wrote:
>>
>> For an organization with a
>> decent budget certainly Openview is a nice solution
>
> Could you please elaborate?
>
> Based on your own first hand experience with OpenView, what do you
> consider are its best, 'nicest' features?
>
> Genuinely curious,
> Dale

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Received on Sun May 16 2010 - 01:00:30 ART