We are in the process of evaluating a few of the vendors in this area. Specifically:
NetIQ AppManager IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) HP Operations Manager SCOM 2007 A lot of the functionality you need will affect what you get. For example, we need something that will connect to our ticketing system (IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console). We need the ability to monitor UNIX and Linux, etc.... Personally I like HP Operations Manager and SCOM 2007. I've already stood up a small instance of SCOM for KMS reporting. But HP Operations Manager is pretty impressive in this category. Seems to really do Linux, UNIX well and the connectors are decent. YMMV chris ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
