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Al makes a good point… Enterprise
Management is not typically an open-the-box, fire-and-forget solution. In fact
I haven’t seen a single product out there that comes close – at least not one
that I haven’t been terribly disappointed with. WUG (What’s Up Gold) used to
be pretty close (talking 6 years ago). But once you get the concepts, and
figure out what you want to monitor, it gets much easier. If you had all Cisco
Catalyst 4000 routers and 7000 routers and HP servers with all the same config,
and all running W2K3R2 with the same config (brands are for example), it’d be
much simpler. But I doubt anyone has a homogenous system, so we get 400 EM
products all trying to be all things to all people, because as soon as one of those
vendors drops support for something, the support phones start ringing asking
for it back. Hmmm. I think that’s the story of Windows as well, come to think
of it… (“what do you mean, no 8.3 filename support?!” J) Rich ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Hmm.. Plenty of good ideas, but I have to admit if you find MOM
difficult and don't want to spend the time, most of the solutions talked about
will have similar issues. I admit MOM interface is terrible for what you
sound like you want to do. Then again, can it be simpler (the answer's
yes, but that's another discussion.) The benefit of MOM is that it comes out of the box configured with
plenty of thresholds already configured from the vendor that made your
directory service. If you go looking for another product, ensure that the
product you look at does the same. If they don't you'll spend oodles of
time configuring and tweaking the product. In fact, I've seen implementations
that finish tweaking just in time for the next upgrade cycle ;) -ajm On 1/5/06, Al
Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: OpenNMS – Replaced a Nagios box. See the website www.opennms.org -----Original Message----- Hi all Just looking for some advice on server monitoring
tools, and for DC monitoring as well as exchange monitoring I'm currently using Argent but found it much of a
hassle to setup and the predefined rules out of the box is very standard and is
much more expensive than others as well. Tried installing MOM but the gui isnt easy (havent
have time to play around much)... Any suggestions or experience on good monitoring
products - preferred agentless.. Thank you and have a splendid day! Kind Regards, Freddy Hartono
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