I'm going through a similar process here. I've been using SA since I arrived about 18 months ago(and for several years before that) and have built some other tools into a portal that acts as our monitoring system. It gives us all the info we need even if it isn't the prettiest site we have. As part of our review process we've been looking at other products from the likes of HP, Tivoli, Concord, and Heroix. All of them are well over 100k USD and not one of them equals the depth I get with SA and other tools for less than 1k in software. Plus SA doesn't require me to purchase a very expensive Sun server to run. When I show the sales people what I'm currently doing they all look pretty shocked and know they lost the sale.
With the continued development of SA and the community that is building around it there really is no reason to look at other tools. Now if I can just convince management of that. -Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Ozar > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:02 AM > To: Stephen Gordon > Subject: Re: [SA-list] Graphs in HTML pages > > > Friday, May 30, 2003, 2:16:54 AM, you wrote: > > SG> Apologies to those who already know the following information > SG> (probably everyone but me), to those that don't, its well worth a > SG> visit to the site reference. > > Of course it is! But only because of my cool daily webcam. I just > *know* everybody out there is dying to see how a Houston > telecommuter lives. Don't try to deny it. > > SG> For those of you (like me) who want to do some neat > things with SA > SG> reports on your intranet I would suggest paying a visit to > SG> http://www.brentozar.com/salive/default.aspx > > Oh, you mean the SA templates. Yeah, those are kinda neat too. ;-) > > SG> Fair play to Brent who is seems to be one of those lucky > individuals > SG> who loves what he does and has no problems sharing the > information > SG> around. > > Thank you, sir. Yeah, I love giving back to the SA community > because SA has really saved my butt countless times. > > Yesterday was another great example. A few months ago, we > stopped using SA at work, and started using a much more > expensive package instead. Frankly, I think that one is an > unreliable piece of junk, so I continued remote monitoring > from home with SA, even though our new CIO uses another tool > from his house as well. He's asked me to stop doing my > monitoring because it puts additional load on our servers, > but of course, my opinion is that if we can't handle an > additional ping and HTTP check on each server every 2 > minutes, then we've got bigger infrastructure problems. I > basically said I'll stop monitoring the day he calls me and > tells me one of my servers is down, and I wasn't already > aware of it. (It seems like at least once a week, the > reverse is true - I call him and tell him one of his boxes is > down, and he didn't know about it.) > > So fast forward to yesterday, and it happened yet again. > ServersAlive instant-messaged me and sent an email to my > phone within two minutes of a firewall going down, and I > emailed the network management team to find out if it was > just me. Surprised 'em again. > > I love my job. :-D > > As for the Java pie charts just showing a grey box, that > sounds like the java applets need to be copied to the web > server. Read the tutorial for Pie Charts on my site, and it > explains where to get them for free and where to put them on > your site. > > Brent > > > -- > BrentO > Originality: posting a tagline that at least one person hasn't seen. > > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
