Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-24 Thread Tim Stevenson
I'll put a plug in for PRTG, which personally I've been using to run visual demos of some switching features for our product; but I've been quite impressed with the depth of capability (custom scripts with XML, full SNMP with custom MIB compilation, NFv5/v9 collection, auto device discovery & s

Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-24 Thread Dan Letkeman
Intermapper has worked well for me for the past few years, easy to setup, not expensive, and has the ability to make a nice graphical map of all your devices any which way you please. Dan. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:38 PM, omar parihuana wrote: > Hi List, > > Please could you suggest me a NMS for

Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-22 Thread Garry
On 18.05.2011 16:47, Jason Gurtz wrote: > licensing issues. If it were a free or open source application this would > be expected. In the commercial world, a bit more polish is expected of a > $30K piece of software. Make sure you budget for this kind of time or > level of support if you go there.

Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-18 Thread Siva Valliappan
Hi Omar, Ciscoworks LMS 4.0 has gone pretty extensive changes in the UI / UX space. it's also very competitively priced respect to the other mgmt solutions out there. You can take the eval version it for a spin and see if it's something you want to roll out. http://www.cisco.com/go/lms

Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-18 Thread Dale Shaw
Hi, On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:38 PM, omar parihuana wrote: > > Please could you suggest me a NMS for WAN/LAN? Strictly speaking it's not an NMS but based on your requirements of monitoring and reporting, I recommend Statseeker -- www.statseeker.com. Cheers, Dale ___

Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-18 Thread Jorge Rodriguez
I have used WhatsUp Gold from IPswitch for a couple of years. It can do everything we need it to do and more and it relatively inexpensive. I would say that it's comparable to Solarwinds. Check them out and good luck Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2011, at 10:38 PM, omar parihuana wrote: >

Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-18 Thread Jason Gurtz
> Commercially talking, I've seen Solarwinds have nice user-friendly > product family named Orion, there are a few nice tools, it's built on a > modular base, so you can buy only one, or integrate few of them. > And is not really expensive, prices are reasonable. As a Solarwinds customer let me sa

Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-18 Thread Ziv Leyes
er.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Lacey Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 6:01 AM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion The best NMS solutions are open source. (My opinion... :-) You can get paid support if that is the issue, from installation to on-going configuration su

Re: [c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-17 Thread Daniel Lacey
The best NMS solutions are open source. (My opinion... :-) You can get paid support if that is the issue, from installation to on-going configuration support. You should investigate what support teams are using to monitor large networks. Papa John's for example monitors 3400 locations requiring onl

[c-nsp] off-topic NMS Suggestion

2011-05-17 Thread omar parihuana
Hi List, Please could you suggest me a NMS for WAN/LAN? the WAN is a MPLS/VPN (300 remote offices) and the Switching is a campus LAN (aprox 1000 Network Devices) and three remote buildings (aprox Network 200 devices in each building). Before I tried Cisco Works but I faced some issues; HP Openvie