[cisco-voip] re: QoS Toolsets

[tennille.spence at gsa.gov]

Hi,

We use qovia to monitor our 350 Cisco phone system and have been happy with
it. We looked at prognosis and NetIQ as well and decided on Qovia as it
gave us as much as other at a half the cost. We have two sites and three
probes. If you want to use the "active call testing" feature, which allows
you to simulate calls across two points, you must have a monitoring device
at each site if you want to test connectivity across sites. The more probes
you have the easier it will be to pinpoint the location on your network
where problems are occurring. If you just have one probe you basically will
be allowed to determine if problems are occurring while arriving or leaving
that monitoring point only.

Tennille Spence
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Dean—

I’m just throwing this out there.

I went to the CIPTUG Conference 2 weeks ago and they had all the vendors
there.  I looked at both plus a couple others.  What are you looking for?

I went down with the focus of finding a VoIP Management suite and came back
knowing I just wanted a really good troubleshooting suite.  What I have
decided is that I will most likely go with Qovia’s solution.

The price break is much better and it puts sensors at remote sites that
return live information to the console and also gets real time snmp info
from the switches, routers and VGW’s.  It will basically give you where the
problems are on a particular call.

Just my 2 cents

Scott


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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:56 AM
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Subject: [cisco-voip] re: QoS Toolsets



I’d like feedback from those users of either NET IQ’s VoIP tools or
Integrated Research’s PROGNOSIS.  How do you like your product selection?


Dean Sarff, MMS A&B IMD, 703-787-1272


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