<div dir="ltr">One thing to note about the Solarwinds suite of products is that you can pick them up for a bargain.<div>I've seen quotes at >50% off RRP.</div><div>Just twist arms, you'll get it.</div><div><br></div>
<div>BUT....Yearly maintenance,</div><div>No discounts, no love, you pay a LARGE % on the RRP, and I've never seen them budge on that.</div><div>So you eventually end up with a product that has no support, no upgrades. (which some people don't mind).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ross.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">If anyone is seriously considering some of the Solarwinds products, let me know... One of the worldwide marketing managers is now Sydney based and she will do good discounts for the right deals.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Lindsay Hill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lindsay.k.hill@gmail.com" target="_blank">lindsay.k.hill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Solarwinds is ~$25K for an unlimited NPM license. Much less if you have a smaller network. If you think that is very expensive, you've never seen the pricing for some of the "Big 4" vendors. Gets very scary, very quickly if you've got a big network.<div>
<br></div><div>If you're set on a commercial product, there's not a huge number of good options that are going to come in at a significantly lower cost. Don't forget to allow for implementation effort. No matter what any vendor says, nothing is just 'install it & you're done.' Depending on your scale, the license cost may only be a small part of the overall cost.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Figure out what features you really need/want. Figure out what scale you need. Big distributed monitoring setup? Or just one server polling 50 devices? Add-ons that can bump up costs are NetFlow, Config Mgmt, IP SLA monitoring, etc. Figure out what other integrations you might need - is this just network monitoring, or do you want to add in server monitoring? Or integrate with another server monitoring system? Trouble-ticketing? Handle it in this tool, or create tickets in another system?</div>
<div><br></div><div>You might end up going with an Open Source core product, with add-on support. As already mentioned, Zenoss is pretty good. NMIS from Opmantek is pretty good too.</div><div><br></div><div> - Lindsay</div>
<div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: I don't work for or with any of the vendors mentioned. NMS consulting is part of what I do, but it's usually with other products. Deliberately haven't mentioned them here, but happy to talk off-list.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Radek Tkaczyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:radek@tkaczyk.id.au" target="_blank">radek@tkaczyk.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been asked to review our network monitoring software that we use internally to monitor our own infrastructure, but also to monitor the various layer 2 and layer 3 customer tails we have around the country.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m looking for any recommendations from people who are happy with the products that they have inhouse. Looking for a commercial product really (as long as it’s not ridiculously expensive).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At my previous employers we have used PRTG and Solarwinds, which were OK, but I know Solarwinds was very expensive. One important feature that we need is a device dashboard that will show us the status and details of a device like IP addresses,
IOS and firmware versions, error stats, etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any suggestions from fellow ausnoggers here?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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