[f-nsp] Best NMS for Foundry gear?

[Mike Hughes]

--On 26 February 2007 12:05 -0800 Joseph Jackson <JJackson at aninetworks.com>
wrote:

> 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. 

...and after paying all that money don't do what you want, and require many
man hours of "bespoke programming" (at some obscene hourly rate) by the
vendor, or one of their "strategic partners" to make them work properly in
your network.

Most of the vendor-specific stuff like Ironview or Extreme's EPIcenter
can't cope well with heterogeneous environments either, which I think is a
terribly short-sighted view, and makes it little more than a management gui
for $vendor's product.

In the end, we run a bunch of open source tools and wrote our own scripts
and glue to stick it all together.

Mike
-- 
Mike Hughes     Chief Technical Officer  London Internet Exchange
mike at linx.net   http://www.linx.net/