Re: Network Monitoring Tools

[Robert Bowman <rob () elite exodus net>]

We've used HP Openview, but we are now migrating to CA (Computer Associates)
UniCenter TNG.  UniCenter not only scales extremely well, but offers so
much more indepth analysis of end stations/routers/etc.  

here is the url:

http://www.cai.com/products/uctr.htm

Robert Bowman
Exodus Communications Inc.
rob () exodus net
> I would like to solicit recommendations for network monitoring utilities. 
> We are attempting to monitor around a thousand nodes (and growing).  We're
> using SunNet Manager since we're primarily a Sun shop.  The problem is
> it's taking a full time programmer (me) to keep up with the changes in our
> net.  It doesn't seem like it ought to take that much effort.  The
> operations staff is competent and ought to be able to configure a
> monitoring utility.  Also, SunNet seems to be a cpu hog.  At the rate it
> uses up cpu, I'll need a giga-SPARC by next year. 
>
> So, the question of the day is what's in use and really works ?  I'm not
> enamored of cute GUI interfaces, particularly ones that try to draw my
> network out before giveing any useful information.  Among other problems,
> running these over a less than wonderful connection to my hotel room is
> painful.  Something that scales well into multipe thousands of nodes would
> be nice.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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