Re: OT: Network Monitoring Tool

i have used both of those and it all boils down to the price you pay, both
money wise and time wise to set them up to get the output you want...

they all pretty much do the same thing out of the can, ICMP/SNMP polling the
rest is all on the customer and the expectations of what you will see out of
them, gui wise...

the only way you are going to know for sure if it is what you want is to set
it up and get it running doing what you want it to do on a few devices then
go live...

my 2 cents...

oh yeah i am playing with Spectrum right now, been a long time since i
worked with it, like 1998 along time ago when it was a Cabletron product
running on solaris xwindows app and i liked that version way better than i
do this OneClick thing i am playing with now...but i am sure it will grow on
me, seeing as that is what they bought cause it is a CA shop...

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On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Dhack Dheolu <dhackdheolu_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need a monitoring tool that can do the following:
>
>        Monitor the availability, response time and packet drop to all
> nodes.
>        Differentiate link up or down to the node with either GREEN or RED
> respectively.
>        Monitor all network security devices ie IDS, IPS, ASA ,switches,
> routers etc
>        Monitor the availability, response time and packet of each service
> provider on separate view so as to manage the SLA.
>        Monitor the bandwidth utilization to each node.
>        Analyse traffic to each node (Net-flow analysis)
>        Send alert via email and SMS
>        Should generate exportable reports
>
> I scaled my options down to two: PRTG and Orion NPM. I was wondering
> if you guys could help me decide on the best option (even those not
> included in my above 2 mentioned). Thanks.
>
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> Adeolu Owokade
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