<div dir="ltr">I have been using OMD(<a href="http://omdistro.org/">http://omdistro.org/</a>) built on Nagios and check_mk </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">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>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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"><div><div class="h5">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">Hi Guys,<u></u><u></u></p>
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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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Radek<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Ph: 0413 383 231<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="mailto:radek@tkaczyk.id.au" target="_blank">radek@tkaczyk.id.au</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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