[AusNOG] Network monitoring software

[Ross [Eve IT]]

One thing to note about the Solarwinds suite of products is that you can
pick them up for a bargain.
I've seen quotes at >50% off RRP.
Just twist arms, you'll get it.

BUT....Yearly maintenance,
No discounts, no love, you pay a LARGE % on the RRP, and I've never seen
them budge on that.
So you eventually end up with a product that has no support, no upgrades.
 (which some people don't mind).

Ross.



On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Skeeve Stevens <
skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Lindsay Hill <lindsay.k.hill at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  - Lindsay
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Radek Tkaczyk <radek at tkaczyk.id.au>wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Guys,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions from fellow ausnoggers here?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Radek
>>>
>>> Ph: 0413 383 231
>>>
>>> radek at tkaczyk.id.au
>>>
>>>
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Regards,

Ross Tsolakidis
IT Architect


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