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

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> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On
> Behalf Of Kambiz Agahian
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:22 PM
> To: Dale Shaw; Green Packets
> Cc: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: 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 ;)
>

Most of the larger open source players out there have realized their user base wants / needs a maintenance agreement to use it within their organization.

Two examples:

http://www.nagios.com/
http://www.opennms.com/

Even some of the larger size SPs and critical networks use them. I would trust a Nagios install on *nix box way before considering solarwinds on a Windows 2003/SQL200[05] box. I think you might be mixing product maturity and open source as being the same thing.

-ryan

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Received on Sun May 16 2010 - 14:07:20 ART