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Posted by Gary on May 21, 2005, 3:45 pm
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Hi All,
Iam having to compare the following products for evaluation:
SNMPc
Solarwinds
Ciscoworks
Are there any recomendations you can make please.
Gaz
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Posted by on May 21, 2005, 7:06 pm
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WhatsUp.....
No it's called WhatsUp Professional,
http://www.ipswitch.ca/whatsup.htm....LoL
Brandon
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Posted by Nick on May 23, 2005, 11:35 pm
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I've used solarwinds orion, tivoli netwview (hp openview), ciscoworks
2000 and whats up gold/professional (WUG). I never used Ciscoworks
beyond basic configuration archiving and some monitoring and I despise
netview/openview so I wont say anything about them.
I am currently evaluating WUG and Orion again in my new position and
have both running on my work PC.
The following is opinion only:
Solarwinds and WUG do slightly different things.
Both will monitor but WUG does the best at responding. Depending on the
complexity of your network and how you have the maps set up, it seems to
be the fastest to respond to an outage.
I had maps that went 3-4 layers deep. The nice thing is, you can set
each map to a different "scan schedule." I would have my network
devices (at the bottom layer) scan every 60 seconds. The 3 layers above
would scan every 20 seconds. Since only the network devices generated
traffic, the 20 second scan only ate up CPU cycles while it scanned
itself. (I hope that makes sense).
It has very easy to configure alerts (emails, pages, etc).
The problem with WUG is that its made for basic monitoring of devices
and some services. I wanted to monitor bandwidth so I ended up with
MRTG/RDTOOL and then some additional tools when it wasnt satisfying me.
It got rather sloppy.
I also didnt much care for the way I needed to have the map loaded on
the desktop for the program to run. Its just annoying. You may be able
to load it as a service but I don't like to be forced into mucking
around like that.
Solarwinds on the other hand monitors both status and utilization. It
looks outstanding on a web page and the reports are fantastic.
The downside is; its clunky as hell to configure. You need to add
devices and services (volumes, interfaces, etc) in one program, then
configure the maps in another. You might work on a map linking 2 items
and realize your not monitoring something. You would then have to shut
down the mapmaker program, start up the system manager, add the
interface, then reopen mapmaker.
Orion feels like it was slapped together from 10 different solarwinds
engineer tools.
The documentation is mediocre and its a pain to get the web pages set up
exactly as you want it.
It uses IIS which bothers me. I often want to have something running on
IIS for other purposes. WUG runs on its own proprietary web service so
I can have both up at once.
Having said all of that, I think I will probably choose Orion. The
ability to have built in utilization reports is a big plus for me. Its
clunky but once its set up, it looks much "prettier" for the people
upstairs.
Gary wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Iam having to compare the following products for evaluation:
>
> SNMPc
> Solarwinds
> Ciscoworks
>
> Are there any recomendations you can make please.
>
> Gaz
>
>
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Posted by dave on May 24, 2005, 2:45 pm
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> Iam having to compare the following products for evaluation:
> SNMPc
> Solarwinds
> Ciscoworks
.... and you forgot about one more - netcruch from AdRem. It's, for sure
worth to see - http://www.adremsoft.com/netcrunch/index.php.
dave
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