[145197] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: events
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Kim)
Fri Sep 30 14:13:56 2011
From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
To: <mloftis@wgops.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:13:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CAHDg04sNcKMBf8+sxw3ZRVkhRFwKQU8vLvLTSJxXY+THL2wGBA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thank you! That's a bummer about the way they license their product.
All it takes is another "splunk" company to come out with something just as=
competitive....
I've been happy with my basic ManageEngine's syslog=2C but I may be looking=
at Solarwinds too...
> Date: Fri=2C 30 Sep 2011 11:36:58 -0600
> Subject: Re: events
> From: mloftis@wgops.com
> To: brandon.kim@brandontek.com
> CC: pfunix@gmail.com=3B harbor235@gmail.com=3B nanog@nanog.org
>=20
> On Fri=2C Sep 30=2C 2011 at 11:21 AM=2C Brandon Kim
> <brandon.kim@brandontek.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is it really that expensive=2C and WORTH the expense?
>=20
> IMO=2C from price quotes I've gotten in the past=2C it's astronomically
> expensive. As for worth it...depends. If you're dealing with events
> for say payment processing systems=2C it might be. But as a general use
> tool=2C it's way outside of being worth it. You license based on the
> incoming bytes of logging data. But you still have to buy the
> hardware to process it. They also expect you to pay for that license
> time and time again.
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