Re: Network Monitoring Software

[Gareth Fletcher <gareth.fletcher () gmail com>]

May we ask, what are the reasons for your boss being against open  
source software?

Also what sort of things were you interested in monitoring? What do  
you want to monitor on the clients?

We have nagios checking hundreds of servers for load/disk space/etc  
and all our network gear, as well as a lot of business applications  
(if you can script it, nagios can check it). I don't see how any of  
the commercial monitoring products can compete, other than the  
hardware centric ones from HP/IBM or Micrososft Systen Center  
Operations Manager (if you run a lot of MS apps like SQL/Exchange you  
should check it out. Licensing is a bit steep though).

Hope this helps
Gareth

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On 22/01/2010, at 2:01 AM, Eric Ong <eric.ccong () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My boss is not perfer to use the Open source software, he is perfer to
> use some mid-class commerical software. He suggested me to review the
> big brother software from http://bb4.com/. Any comment?  Have any good
> commerical software with famous brand and cost arround US$5000-6000
> for 300 nodes?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Eric
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:01 PM, BRIAN RITCHIE
> <esqbrianritchie () gmail com> wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> >   Since we are discussing Nagios, I thought I might place a small
> > enquiry here as well. Are they any resource sites/ forums besides the
> > Nagios main site or the one recommended english forum on their site.
> > Am looking for a more comprehensive forum with some guidance on the
> > app since I need to do some playing around and testing for work.
> > Thanks in advance guys and sincerely appreciate the help.
> >
> > - BRIAN RITCHIE
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Lorenzo Nicolodi
> > <lorenzo.nicolodi () gmail com> wrote:
> > > I will suggest to you this solution created by an Italian company
> > > (http://www.wuerth-phoenix.com/en/solutions/wuerthphoenix-neteye/it-monitoring/ 
> > > )
> > > ... it is based on Nagios and it works very well..it also include a
> > > some interesting plugins such as log management, etc...
> > >
> > > Lo
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Eric Ong <eric.ccong () gmail com>  
> > > wrote:
> > > > Dear all,
> > > >
> > > > I am currently looking for the network monitoring software for a
> > > > mid-size company, which around 300 PCs and 40 Servers. Some
> > > > salesperson recommended me to purchase the PacketTrap from QUEST
> > > > SOFTWARE or SPLUNK.
> > > >
> > > > Do you have any positive experience with these two softwares? Any
> > > > experience to share?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Eric Ong
> > > >
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