Thanks for all the great responses. Good question. I haven't been given any requirements yet I was just told there will be a requirement for a Network management tool. SCOM may fit the bill as we are planning a SCOM deployment. I will look at what Orion offers over SCOM. Thank you
Lee On 08/02/2008, Stringham, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nagios is great for up/down notifications. > > If you want pretty history graphs, skip MRTG and go with Cacti. > (www.cacti.org) > > If you snap mactrack into Cacti, the you can get the port mapping. Very > nice. > > Easy on any of it? Not so much. Useful, and worth putting in the time > (depending on your network size)? You bet. > > Again, what is it you really need? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:41 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Network Management Tools > > I have Solarwinds (Engineer flavor). It's ok. Was really nice when I > first got it because I didn't know what else was available. Orion is a > ton of money. But the term "Network Monitoring" isn't saying much, which > is probably why a few people asked what you (Lee) are looking for. > > Most of what Solarwinds collects runs of SNMP. The non-Orion flavors > dump the data into MS Access-type data stores, which quickly become too > unmanageable for the program (even with regular nightly maintenance). I > found myself frequently "fixing" the DBs. > > Features like real-time bandwidth monitoring are nice (the gauges are > pretty cool actually), but for historic tracking, you can get that > feature in progs like PRTG/MRTG. > > Another feature in Solarwinds that I haven't seen anywhere else is the > port mapping tool, that searches switches you specify and tells you the > machines that are connected to each port. That helps for comparisons, or > a quick search need. > > SWs Engineer also as a nice switch config comparison tool. > > Orion does the same thing Solarwinds Engineer does, but on a larger > scale with remote reporting. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 1:21 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Network Management Tools > > I was just looking at Orion earlier, when this discussion first started. > Anyone have personal experience with this, and how is it different than > the big toolkit that they also sell? I understand that a lot of the > toolkit tools are manual, but it's advertised as monitoring tools, so > what's the big difference between the two? I was just told that we have > a little money to spend before end of fiscal year, and was asked what > I'd like, and of course I said a network monitoring tool, as we don't > have one now... > > > Joe Heaton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 9:17 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Network Management Tools > > Ha Ha > If your talking about Orion from Solarwinds its not any where near free. > :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:14 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Network Management Tools > > I want it to monitor everything, with no effort from me, and for free! > :) > > > Joe Heaton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 9:12 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Network Management Tools > > What does network management mean to you? What tasks are you looking to > perform, with what outcomes, at what cost, and with what effort? > > On Feb 8, 2008 7:25 AM, lee jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > We are looking to deploy network management tools into a new > environment. > > Does anyone have any recommendations? We were looking at SolarWinds. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Lee > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.21/1266 - Release Date: > 2/8/2008 10:06 AM > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > > > This message contains confidential information and is intended only for > the intended recipient(s). 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