[ale] NetCool vs competitors

[Patrick Bartkus]

And don't forget WhatsUp Pro (formerly WhatsUp Gold). Although it is
commercial, it has many features for an extremely low price (compared to
other commercial NMS products).

I've used it at a former job and loved it.

Patrick

On 5/11/06, Chris Ricker <kaboom at oobleck.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >   Does anyone have experience with NetCool or something similar that is
> > setup for monitoring distributed networks, devices and servers?
>
> Yep
>
> There's a *lot* of open source available in that general space as well,
> some of it directly comparable, some of it more frameworks that you can
> use to build what you need
>
> My recommendation -- figure out exactly what's important to you. Go
> through all the questions like:
>
> * do you want just network stuff, or also servers?
>
> * since you're including servers, do you mind a host agent-based approach,
> or will you go entirely remote / snmp monitoring?
>
> * if you want a host agent-based solution, what OSes do you need to
> support?
>
> * if you want an entirely remote solution, does everything you want
> support snmp, etc.?
>
> * do you want just monitoring, or do you also want management (just get a
> page when a daemon's not running, or actually restart the daemon)?
>
> * are pretty graphs / trending important to you?
>
> * if they are, what kinds of data do you want tracked?
>
> * is extensibility for new services important, and if so, how is the
> product extended?
>
> * how much are you planning on monitoring, both in terms of numbers of
> devices and how detailed of monitoring of each device?
>
> * how scalable is the monitoring application? how does it scale?
>
> * how much work are you willing to invest in getting it going?
>
> If you look through the specs of some of the products, you'll get a better
> feel for what's out there and narrow in on a solution that fits what you
> need.... Once you do that, you may find NetCool's appropriate, or you may
> find that one of the free solutions better fits your needs
>
> Some of the stuff you might want to look at to get ideas:
>
> NetCool - commercial
> OpenView - commercial
> Big Brother - formerly open source, now closed for commercial use
> nagios - open source
> Hobbit - open source
> Munin - open source
> Cacti - open source
> Zabbix - GPL, but politely asks that commercial users pay
> opennms - open source
>
> later,
> chris
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