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Re: Network Monitoring Tools

  • From: Robert Bowman
  • Date: Fri Jul 11 10:46:56 1997

We've used HP Openview, but we are now migrating to CA (Computer Associates)
UniCenter TNG.  UniCenter not only scales extremely well, but offers so
much more indepth analysis of end stations/routers/etc.  

here is the url:

http://www.cai.com/products/uctr.htm

Robert Bowman
Exodus Communications Inc.
[email protected]
> 
> 
> I would like to solicit recommendations for network monitoring utilities. 
> We are attempting to monitor around a thousand nodes (and growing).  We're
> using SunNet Manager since we're primarily a Sun shop.  The problem is
> it's taking a full time programmer (me) to keep up with the changes in our
> net.  It doesn't seem like it ought to take that much effort.  The
> operations staff is competent and ought to be able to configure a
> monitoring utility.  Also, SunNet seems to be a cpu hog.  At the rate it
> uses up cpu, I'll need a giga-SPARC by next year. 
> 
> So, the question of the day is what's in use and really works ?  I'm not
> enamored of cute GUI interfaces, particularly ones that try to draw my
> network out before giveing any useful information.  Among other problems,
> running these over a less than wonderful connection to my hotel room is
> painful.  Something that scales well into multipe thousands of nodes would
> be nice.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>  --
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