I was involved in a recent proposal, it involved two competitors BMC and XX from what I saw of the complete architectural design, XX had 3 -5 times more machines and 3-5 times more admins doing the same job that BMC was doing. So If you want more admin, and more manpower... then competitor is the way to go..
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Peter Romain < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > > Integrating ADDM is trivial (not even an integration script if using CMDB > 7.6.4). > > Blade Logic integration installs AIE exchanges which should just work. > > > > The challenges will be around normalisation and reconciliation but these > challenges are discovery-tool agnostic. > > > > The BMC mantra of late is that customers are looking to go to a single > manufacturer for everything rather than get the best of class from different > manufacturers as you then only have one service operation to beat up!! > > > > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *patrick zandi > *Sent:* 11 March 2011 14:54 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Discovery Tools > > > > ** Alot of text here: Summary > > ADDM : Tideway discovery (this scans the network with a ping, nmap, and > then login to box and does a basic discovery of some software/hardware). > BBCA: Bladelogic for Client Automation: Which can be used on servers too, > but does not do everything BSA does: does in depth software and hardware and > some licenses and then puts them into the CMDB as relationships, also FDCC > compliancy > BBSA: Same as above for servers, provisioning servers rapidly, and > compliancy > > hope this helps > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Hale, Greg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ** > > We are starting the process of looking at tools that can handle the > Discovery of our Assets and integrating them into our CMDB. > > > > What discovery tools are others currently using? Pros? Cons? How was it > integrating with BMC’s Remedy CMDB? > > > > The few Discovery Tools I’ve seen want to license/charge by the CPU or > Asset. Is that true for what others are currently using? > > > > Any details, insight, or information would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Greg Hale > > SiriusXM Enterprise Management Systems Principal Engineer > > ARS 7.1P5 Solaris 10 Oracle 10gR2 > > HelpDesk 6 > > Mid-Tier 7.5P7 IIS 6 Tomcat 5.5.28 > > _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > > > > > -- > Patrick Zandi > _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > -- Patrick Zandi _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
