Chris, I've deployed both of these products in reasonably large environments.....
- Both NetIQ and MOM require a fair bit of setup to get the right level of monitoring going - Both require constant attention to be effective monitoring / reporting platforms (they are not set-and-forget products) - NetIQ's monitoring is more flexible and customisable IMHO. - Both products are very expensive, with costs for base level OS agents, plus additional costs for layered applications (like Exchange / SQL) - NetIQ is a very mature product, MOM is essentially v1.0 (take that any way you want) - the current version of MOM is basically an OEM version of NetIQ - NetIQ's cross platform support is MILES / LEAGUES / KM (depending on your unit of measurement) ahead of MOM, and will be for some time. There is a bunch of other things, it has been talked about on the list previously (fairly recently actually). For my money, NetIQ is crrently the better prodct, but we all know what happens once MS put their muscle behind a particular product sector. That being said, NetIQ will probably be left standing, as they have a great range of products and people, not just in the overlap with MOM. Glenn On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 00:13, Chris Flesher wrote: > We're looking at NetIQ for monitoring our Windows/SQL stuff, as well > as what it can do on Unix (Solaris, AIX). However, with Microsoft > going head on into monitoring, should I be worried about the affect > this will have on NetIQ in the short/long term? Which is a better > product right now? Which has better cross-platform support? > > We are a dominantly Windows in this department, with Unix in there as > well. > > Thank you for any info you may have. > > Chris Flesher > The University of Chicago > NSIT/DCS > 1-773-834-8477 > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
