Having just reviewed almost every major and a few minor monitoring package on the market over the last six months I have not been able to justify their costs as compared to my current toolset based on SA. The only one that comes close is Heroix EQ but it requires agents to be installed on each server and costs(for my environment) well over 100k USD with support being an additional yearly cost of 20% of the license cost.
Support of SA by Dirk is the best in the business. The user community has direct input into the features added to SA and discovered problems are generally resolved within a few days, if not hours. NONE of the major software packages offer that kind of support at any price. -Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx > Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 1:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SA-list] A question... > > > Little remark on the "big boy" monitoring systems. > * compare the cost > * they use agents on the system that are monitored (-> > roll-out is not easy by that) > * compare the support > > > > > > dirk. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Paul Ockenden > Sent: Sun Jun 01 5:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SA-list] A question... > > > > Folks, > > I'm currently writing about SA for a magazine article. One > area where the various 'big boy' monitoring systems beat SA > hands down is being able to monitor from, say, two or three > different locations, and only alert if all of them agree that > a server is down. That way you eliminate any errors caused by > the connectivity of the monitoring point. > > But this got me thinking.... I wonder whether it could be > 'mocked up' by using SA's ability to generate a Web page of > results, and using this to co-ordinate between monitoring points. > > i.e. at Monitoring Point C you'd have a series of rules saying: > > - If Server Z is down > - Then if Monitoring Point A says that Server Z is down > - Then if Monitoring Point B says that Server Z is down > - Raise an alert. > > Anyway, I was just wondering whether anyone on the mailing > list has done anything like this? Or whether anyone can see a > flaw in my logic (other than the fact that it would be a REAL > pig to set up the rules - how I wish that SA could be driven > from a scripting > language!) > > Thanks, > > P. > > > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
