Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Martin hepworth
Christopher J. Wolff wrote: Tivoli, Openview, Unicenter, ipmonitor, mrtg, nagios? There are many network monitoring options but each option has its pitfalls. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that any software Computer Associates publishes is designed for the criminally insane. However, there

Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: Tivoli, Openview, Unicenter, ipmonitor, mrtg, nagios? There are many network monitoring options but each option has its pitfalls. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that any software Computer Associates publishes is designed for the

Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Pete Kruckenberg
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: CA-Unicenter/OVW/Tivoli are not IDS systems... (traditionally) but they can normally monitor the heck out of 'decent' sized networks (less than 500 components was my last experience with OVW atleast, tivoli and CA we never got working

Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Pete Kruckenberg
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that any software Computer Associates publishes is designed for the criminally insane. http://www.sltrib.com/2003/feb/02232003/business/31810.asp

Re[2]: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Richard Welty
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that any software Computer Associates publishes is designed for the criminally insane. i've generally thought of CA as as the old software rest home, the place where it goes to die. cheers, richard --

Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Christopher McCrory
Hello... On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 21:12, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: Tivoli, Openview, Unicenter, ipmonitor, mrtg, nagios? There are many network monitoring options but each option has its pitfalls. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that any software Computer Associates publishes is

Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Jeff Weisberg
Pete asked: | | (traditionally) but they can normally monitor the heck | out of 'decent' sized networks (less than 500 components | was my last experience with OVW atleast, tivoli and CA | we never got working correctly with less than 1 metric | butt ton of LOE to keep it running) | | What

Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Pete Kruckenberg wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: CA-Unicenter/OVW/Tivoli are not IDS systems... (traditionally) but they can normally monitor the heck out of 'decent' sized networks (less than 500 components was my last experience with

Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:29:47AM -0500, Jeff Weisberg wrote: | (traditionally) but they can normally monitor the heck | out of 'decent' sized networks (less than 500 components | was my last experience with OVW atleast, tivoli and CA | we never got working correctly with less than 1

Re[2]: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Richard Welty
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Pete Kruckenberg wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: CA-Unicenter/OVW/Tivoli are not IDS systems... (traditionally) but they can normally monitor the heck out of 'decent' sized networks (less than 500 components was my last experience with OVW

Re: Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-26 Thread Petri Helenius
MRTG/RRDTool or RTG are nice packages for somethings, but you might have to have a farm of pollers/graphers/displayers (and a few folks to care for them/create displays that matter) to poll 100,000 interfaces, eh? Polling 10 interfaces every five minutes is only 333 queries per second.

Network monitoring/IDS rant - What's hot what's not?

2003-02-25 Thread Christopher J. Wolff
Tivoli, Openview, Unicenter, ipmonitor, mrtg, nagios? There are many network monitoring options but each option has its pitfalls. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that any software Computer Associates publishes is designed for the criminally insane. However, there 'has' to be something that