Hi Jeff, Thanks, good pickup. Somehow Ciscoone wasn’t put in for the controllers or PI, so we are looking into how that would play out too.
We haven’t quite chosen to jump ship at this point, but it’s under serious consideration. Since we’ll have to purchase licensing to move to another product it’s not likely we’ll be saving much /if any $$ on a 3 year plan. However our experience with PI is poor at best (take me back to WCS), and paying this much money for a product that while is much improved still has many basic issues just doesn’t sit well. We are on 3.0, not moved to 3.1 at this point. We are licensed to do our switches, but just haven’t been able to get there to have them on(have on previous versions but never moved past adding them). Our confidence is pretty low on the product and time to spend on it is challenging, and will we end up in the same place we have every other time… I know there’s customers out there that are happy, and certainly for what we use it for now it’s goes pretty well. But we use 10%, now if they had a support option that scaled to how we use it ☺ Overall at the moment it’s look at a few options and compare. Regards Jason -- Jason Cook Technology Services The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 Ph : +61 8 8313 4800 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeffrey D. Sessler Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2016 12:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Prime Alternatives Jason, have you considered moving to CiscoOne, that way you get the Prime licenses? May be less expensive then purchasing/maintaining Prime alone. Are you using Prime 3.x or something older? Prime became infinitely more interesting in 3.x and I depend on the dashboards, history, and reporting for a number of really critical items from the basic troubleshooting to budgeting decisions. Prime’s value also increases if you use it to manage the rest of your infrastructure e.g. switches/routers. Jeff From: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Jason Cook <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 7:22 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Prime Alternatives Hi All, Re-visiting that Prime thing again, interested to know what you’re using instead of Prime to manage Cisco wireless gear and how that’s going for you. I believe Airwave is used by a few, is there anything else? We realise keeping up with features/models may lag a bit and aren’t too worried there. Interested mostly in how well it does what it does, and If it’s worth the $ is costs you. We’ve pretty much stopped using Prime for configuration (except some circumstances) and when we complete our migration from multiple 5508’s in N+1 to a 8510 HA pair there won’t be much use for config it at all….. The cost to keep PI supported is quite high for what we’ll use it for. The things we use most are · floor plans with AP location/status (user counts, channel, power settings etc etc) · General AP health/campus health etc · Client events for troubleshooting · Limited Graphing/reporting but a bit Thanks Jason -- Jason Cook Technology Services The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 Ph : +61 8 8313 4800 e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]%3cmailto:[email protected]>> CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please do not read, save, forward, disclose, or copy the contents of this email. If this email has been sent to you in error, please notify the sender by reply email and delete this email and any copies or links to this email completely and immediately from your system. No representation is made that this email is free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
