[c-nsp] OT Solarwinds Alternatives

[Paul Stewart]

We run a bunch of different systems today including Solarwinds.  For many years I have dealt with Solarwinds in various companies and found their system to be “not bad” but when it comes to features, especially for service providers, they are less than responsive.  They are driven purely by numbers - and those numbers come from Enterprise customers and not service providers unfortunately in their case.

Right now, considering many options and so far quite interested in LogicMonitor as an example .. it’s a SaaS solution that is considerably more expensive than Solarwinds though.  Also, been checking out OpsView which is self-hosted with great interest too … cool thing about OpsView is it can be deployed across various POP’s (distributed somewhat) and you can utilize any Nagios plugins you wish ….

Just some quick thoughts….

Paul


> On Jul 27, 2017, at 4:16 PM, Jerry Bacon <jerryb at startouch.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not a huge fan of Solarwinds either, but it's what we're moving to.
> 
> We have PRTG, which I much prefer. Seems pricey if you have a very large network, but in the end, I think it would have cost us less than the move to Solarwinds. Very flexible and logical grouping if you have many sites (as we do).
> 
> The other I have some experience with is WhatsUp Gold, but when we evaluated a recent version a while back it was very slow.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jerry Bacon
> Senior Network Engineer
> StarTouch, Inc.
> http://www.startouch.com
> 360-543-5679 ext. 111
> Microwave - Fiber Optics - Internet Services
> 
> On 7/27/2017 11:56 AM, Nick Griffin wrote:
>> Sorry for the off-topic post. I'm looking for input on network management
>> solutions other than solarwinds, unbiased opinions. We will need all things
>> network related, monitoring, alerts, reporting, configuration management,
>> and other tools that might be handy for a NOC. If this takes multiple tools
>> then that is fine. Just looking for some ideas from the guys in the
>> trenches. Thanks!
> 
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