[10622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Monitoring Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bowman)
Fri Jul 11 10:41:56 1997
From: Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net>
To: dhares@autonet.net (David Hares - ADP Autonet)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:23:58 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970711092114.24501B-100000@ns1> from "David Hares - ADP Autonet" at Jul 11, 97 10:04:06 am
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.
> --
> David L. Hares, Senior Staff Programmer
> AutoNet Phone: (313) 995-6539
> 175 Jackson Plaza FAX : (313) 995-6458
> Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (USA) Email: dhares@autonet.net
>
