[c-nsp] best fault management solutions?

[Christian MacNevin]

SMARTS is the f&**ing S#!T

(meaning i like it)




On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:39 AM, <daniel.voyer at bell.ca> <daniel.voyer at bell.ca 
 > wrote:



Hello,

Then you want a see this:
http://www.emc.com/products/family/smarts-family.htm

Smart is a monitoring tools with corolation engine. If you router  
crashes, you will know about, and you will also know what's behind  
that router that you just lost and then gives you the impact. It can  
go up to servers.

- dan

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
] On Behalf Of Gregori Parker
Sent: August 21, 2008 1:29 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] best fault management solutions?

I've had it with Ciscoworks.

I'm not new to getting LMS working properly, I'm just tired of  
lowering my expectations.  Device discovery is hit and miss, new  
versions seem progressively worse, and the whole product is about as  
ergonomic as a pile of broken glass.  I've stripped it down to just  
common services and DFM, but there just isn't enough value there  
relative to resources.

So, I'm looking for DFM-like replacement recommendations - I currently  
have configuration and performance management covered by rancid,  
cacti, syslog-ng and a few other open source tools; and I have netflow  
taken care of - I'm just having trouble finding a good solution for  
device fault management (i.e. temp, fan, interface errors, queues,  
broadcast rate, bgp neighbor state changes, etc) for a mostly-Cisco  
environment.
I need something with a little bit of intelligence, not just a simple  
trap forwarder.  Have already evaluated Orion, but it has too many  
extras that I don't need (i.e. netflow, traffic graphs, configs, et al  
are already handled) and not enough of what I do need (device  
awareness, alerting).  Not concerned with cost and platform, thanks in  
advance.

- Gregori

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