[f-nsp] Best NMS for Foundry gear?

[Joseph Jackson]

My biggest problem with these NMS products on the market today is the
cost.  They always seem to cost an arm and a leg but aren't really worth
that price. 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Cliff Fogle
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:37 AM
> To: Dave Temkin; foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Best NMS for Foundry gear?
> 
> Ironview is okay.  Has some pretty serious flaws though.  The Sflow
> implementation is particularly bad.
> 
> My number one tool for network insight is the InMon Traffic Sentinal,
> which is a great piece of sflow/netflow software.
> http://www.inmon.com/products/trafficsentinel.php
> 
> For other things such as configuration management and
> host-to-switch-port mapping I've had to do custom scripting.  
> I've never
> found any software that does good host-to-port mapping 
> tho...regardless
> of the hardware manufacturer. 
> 
> I've never found a satisfactory NMS in the end all.  It's really too
> bad.  (Or I'm just too picky.)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Dave Temkin
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:03 AM
> To: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [f-nsp] Best NMS for Foundry gear?
> 
> Finding that most off-the-shelf stuff pretty much sucks for Foundry.
> I've got a mess of RX and SI that I need better monitoring on - Cacti
> for just stats/thresholding isn't quite enough.
> 
> Curious to know what others are using...
> 
> -Dave
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