[c-nsp] Network Monitor / Mgmnt App

[Paul Stewart]

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Ciscoworks is a great package and works well.... if you don't mind
spending serious $$$ on software...

We use JFFNMS (http://www.jffnms.org).. don't let the name fool you.. we
love it...:)

Paul


Joseph Jackson wrote:
| I must have alerts on device failures based on ping time outs is good
but I
| am really wanting SNMP trap notifications if a interface on a router goes
| down.  Graphing of device usage i.e traffic / cpu / memory. A log analyzer
| would be great since we have pix firewalls.  My main want would be
good SNMP
| MIB support for cisco devices routers/switches/pix The Intuit mib
manager is
| horrible. Network mapping would be nice but not a deal breaker.  I
have been
| pushing for CiscoWorks from based on what I read but my boss has come down
| against it saying he has heard of it resetting routers....
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
| [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of John Neiberger
| Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:35 AM
| To: JJackson at nos.com; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
| Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Network Monitor / Mgmnt App
|
|
|>>>Joseph Jackson <JJackson at nos.com> 5/12/05 12:30:13 PM >>>
|>
|>Greetings All,
|>
|>	I was wondering if anyone on this list has a good recommendation
|
| of
|
|>an Enterprise class network monitor / Mgmnt App.  I have been looking
|
| at
|
|>Cisco Works but would like to hear some reviews from end users that
|
| use it
|
|>or have used it.  We currently use Intuits Network Monitor but I hate
|
| it!  I
|
|>have tried out OpenNMS but the higher ups for some reason dislike
|
| open
|
|>source tools.. (sigh).  I am also looking at Solorwinds Engineer
|
| package so
|
|>any reviews on that would be great too.
|
|
| If it were up to you, what sort of functionality would you like to see
| in this application?
|
| What sorts of things must you have? What can you live without?
|
| John
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