We use SolarWinds here at my workplace (a small CLEC, ISP & managed services provider). As the case with all other suites of this nature, if what you are monitoring is monitorable entirely by means of SNMP and vendor SNMP MIBs, this would be a good solution for you. It provides integrated graphing and monitoring and availability statistics reporting information in one package.
If you have any more customised requirements, unfortunately it fails in the same fashion as most other high-end network management / monitoring packages and you could benefit from the flexibility open-source solutions offer you as far as scripting integration, APIs and data set acquisition hooks. Unless, of course, you want to take the approach of building a specialised SNMP server for this sort of thing and reporting the output of a bunch of scriptables through custom OIDs. :) Also, I don't believe SolarWinds has config management capabilities along the lines that Kiwi CatTools offers. However, I could be wrong, especially since we are still running SolarWinds v7, not 8+. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : +1-678-954-0670 Direct : +1-678-954-0671 _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
