Can't agree more, we replaced Spectrum with WhatsUp Gold, Spectrum was $50,000 initial purchase and 6,500 yearly support and did a lot of crap that we never touched and was impossible to use. The bean counters here are thrilled with $1095 (even though I still haven't gotten around to upgrading to 7.0)
Our Cisco tech turned us on to WhatsUp, he said all of the tech's there love it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shmuel Weitzner Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] FW: Memory Via SNMP Kurtis, I believe the only place you can buy it is from ipswitch.com. Correct me if I am wrong. I estimate that the $795 price-tag ($1095 with support) saves us tens of thousands of dollars per year. Shmuel. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@list.ipswitch.com Wednesday January 23, 2002 12:07 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] FW: Memory Via SNMP Thank you Jeff and Mark for brightening up an unusually slow day. I was hoping for a decent cat fight over this... After serious consideration, I have to side with Jeff on this one. Here is Mark's question; OK, but how would I monitor that server's performance with Performance Monitor from my Win 2000 machine to that server? This definitely sounds like a newbie question to me. ;) Mark, tone down the ego a bit. We all ask dumb sounding questions from time to time. Hell, I do one a day at least. I been doing this IT thing for almost ten years now and you got my respect for administering Unix and NT. Now, I have a serious question for the discussion group. I downloaded the Whats Up Gold demo and it works great. I talked the bean counters into giving me the money to buy a legit copy. Anyone know where I can buy a copy of Whats Up Gold 7.0 for a decent price? Thanks in advance; Kurtis Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Brady, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] FW: Memory Via SNMP switch.com 01/23/2002 11:29 AM Please respond to WhatsUp_Forum Again. wasn't meant as a put down. From a one sentence e-mail I have no idea of your abilities. Just a friendly warning if you happened to be one of those inexperienced newbies that pop up on all lists with questions, get in over there head, then get in trouble and expect immediate answers from the list to fix things like they would from tech support. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of TrueSpectra Support Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:18 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] FW: Memory Via SNMP Jeff, Thanks for the tip. I am a Windows NT/2000 and SUN SOLARIS Administrator, I know how to use Performance Manager to monitor the local box and I know how to use other tools to monitor boxes, the question I had was how to monitor another computer via Performance Manager. I, myself, administer over 50 servers in 5 different Colo's. I don't think this is the place for comments stated in your e-mail. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Brady, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:52 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] FW: Memory Via SNMP Start...Control Panel...Admin tools...Performance..Click the "+" button to add a counter...there is a drop down box to pick the machine you want to monitor, not just the local machine. If this is to be an on going monitor, you probably want to do a log instead of a real time chart. I would also change the counter from one second to a minute or more. Not being a smart ass or anything, but honestly - If you don't even know how to use performance monitor, pick up some books and do some reading before you attempt to admin live servers. If your a Unix or other OS guy please don't take that as an insult, just imagine me as a Windows guy sitting down at a live Solaris install and doing stuff with my only training being messages I read on a mailing list. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of TrueSpectra Support Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:41 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] FW: Memory Via SNMP Ok, but how would I monitor that server's performance with Performance Monitor from my Win 2000 machine to that server? -----Original Message----- From: Brady, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:10 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] FW: Memory Via SNMP If it is many machine, try MRTG or one of the Somix products that makr MRTG easier to use. If it is just one machine, don't bother with SNMP and use the built-in Performance Monitor -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of TrueSpectra Support Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 4:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] FW: Memory Via SNMP All, How would we go about monitoring a Windows 2000 Machine's memory and CPU utilization with SNMP?????? Mark Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. 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