[22237] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: System and Network Monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Wed Dec 16 16:16:50 1998
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:52:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Tim Salo <salo@networkcs.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:48:06 -0800 (PST)
> From: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: System and Network Monitoring
>
> OK, I'm looking for "real world" data and not sales/marketing hype.
>
> I'm looking for a package to do network and system monitoring. It's a
> heterogenous environment consisting of all manner of routers, at least 700
> servers (Mostly FreeBSD, but also Solaris and Network Appliance boxen).
> [...]
I would be interested to hear about your comparison of a commercial
package such as HP OpenView with free alternatives.
My inclination is towards a commercial package. I even suspect that it
would be less expensive in the long run, plus it seems likely to free
up your technical talent for revenue-producing activities.
-tjs
