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

Hi Dale,

Always as a consultant and not a field engineer but before running a PoC
my customers raise the same concerns very frequently.

Are you going to get any consulting company involved? This is actually
what they're supposed to do; very briefly you need a list of
requirements (e.g. to be supported apps etc.) - for instance I want the
winner so certainly support these 50 options (Red); it's important that
it also supports at least 50% of these 30 options (Yellow) and that
would be great if it does support any of these 60 options.

You pick 3 major players in the market (e.g. HP, IBM, Solar) brief them
on what you're after and ask them to prove their concept (PoC). It's
their job to get back to you with enough information (perhaps a trial
plan) and it's your consulting company's job to analyze it based on your
current people/financial/application budget and come up with the name of
the winner and what it takes to fully implement the solution.
 

HTH

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Shaw [mailto:dale.shaw_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:41 AM
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 5:12 PM, Kambiz Agahian
<kagahian_at_ccbootcamp.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
[... etc etc ...]

Just to clarify, have you ever been directly involved with an
implementation of any of the HP OpenView suite of products?

I'm not trying to be cheeky but with all due respect, I'm only
interested in hearing from people with real world, hands-on experience
with HPOV. In my company, a separate group maintains and operates a
large (and for the most part, very successful) OV deployment but from
where I sit, it's difficult to work with, inflexible, expensive, lacks
'obvious' functionality and requires highly skilled personnel to
customise it.

Cheers,
Dale

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Received on Sun May 16 2010 - 05:07:45 ART