[BBLISA] Suggestions for commercial network/infrastructure monitoring package?

[David Miller]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Paul Beltrani <spamgrinder at gmail.com>wrote:

> My counterpart in our production operations group as asked me about
> commercial monitoring packages, something along the lines of Opsview,
> OpenView, Netcool etc.  However, I really don't have any experience
> with what's current in the commercial space. So, my question of the
> list is, does have a commercial package and/or vendor they like in
> this area?
>
> As a bit of background and to preemptively answer a few questions I'm
> bound to get in reply.
> 1) Yes, it has to be commercial.  The team that will be using this
> package doesn't have the mandate, expertise or people to deploy
> anything on their own.  They're looking to buy a solution.
> 2) We need to monitor 3 or 4 locations, ~ 750 Linux systems, ~ 50
> Windows systems, assorted Ethernet and Fibre channel network gear.
>

I don't think this commercial requirement excludes open source solutions as
there are commercially supported open source solutions in this space.
Nagios, Zabbix, and Zenoss all have fully supported enterprise solutions.
--
David
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