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Network Monitoring Tool for hetrogenous network envoirnment

Asked by: ahmadsarfraz01

Hi!
I am having a flat network that contails switches from cisco,nortel,3com, nortel wireless acess point. I am in need of good network monitoring tool.Can you please suggest good network monitoring tool that support fiber optic and ethernet network in hetrogeneous envoirnment?

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Answers

 

by: Hisham_ElkouhaPosted on 2009-02-16 at 05:55:07ID: 23649659

You can try CyberGauge ... very powerfull


 

by: uetian1707Posted on 2009-02-16 at 23:19:32ID: 23656914

Hi,

Please check out the below options;

Propriety-NMS            

SolarWinds Orion      www.solarwinds.com      Propriety
Smarts                            www.smarts.com      Propriety
WhatsupGold      www.whatsupgold.com      Propriety
EM7           www.sciencelogic.com      Propriety
Nexus NMS      www.nexusmgmt.com      Propriety
CA               ca.com      Propriety
StableNet Suite       www.infosim.net      Propriety
NetXplorer      www.allot.com      Propriety
IT Monitor Enterprise      www.osisoft.com      Propriety
Automated Infrastructure Technology      www.handsfreenetworks.com      Propriety
loriotpro SNMP Manager      www.loriotpro.com      Propriety
zenithinfotec      www.zenithinfotech.com      Propriety
SNMPc      www.castlerock.com      Propriety
InterMapper      dartware.com      Propriety
NetMRI      www.netcordia.com      Propriety
Netvoyant      www.netqos.com      Propriety
ServerAlive      www.woodstone.nu      Propriety
NetXMS      www.netxms.org      Propriety
CommView      www.tamos.com      Propriety
AirMagnet      www.airmagnet.com      Propriety
MonitorMagic      www.tools4ever.com      Propriety
Observer      www.netinst.com      Propriety
HP-OpenView      www.hp.com      Propriety
IBM Tivoli        www.ibm.com      Propriety
CiscoWorks      www.cisco.com      Propriety

Open-Source NMS            

ZenOSS      www.zenoss.com      LAMP based NMS
Nagios      www.nagios.org      LAMP based NMS
JFFNMS      www.jffnms.org      LAMP based NMS
OpenNMS      www.opennms.org      LAMP based NMS
Zabbix      www.zabbix.com      LAMP based NMS
Hyperic HQ      www.hyperic.com      LAMP based NMS
GroundWork      www.groundworkopensource.com      LAMP based NMS
Cacti      www.cacti.net      RRDTool

The more money you spend the better NMS you get. HP CA and IBM solutions are enterprise grade. It depends on your company budget. But for normal organizations I guess SolarWinds Orion and Observer are decent options.

 

by: bgrothoffPosted on 2009-02-17 at 07:06:42ID: 23660265

As far as the big commercial players here is my experience:

I have taught Openview for HP and Unicenter for CA, of those two the Openview product set is easier, more reliable and far less expensive. That being said I wouldn't go with either if you are starting from the ground up. I've also implemented Netcool in several NOCs and it is a very powerful suite of products, has the best console and is probably the most respected. Unfirtunatly it is also quite expensive and complicated, and now that IBM ownes them I'm not sure where they will end up.  I've never deployed Tivoli, which IBM bought a while back, but it has one of the poorest implementation rate of any EM product.I've played around with BMC patrol, which is great for server and application management, not as impressive on network management, and again, very expensive.

On the cheaper side:
Currently I own a managed services company and use Solar Winds Orion NPM as the framework for management in my NOC. The decision to go with them was almost entirely a result of their cost (~$2500 for 100 managed objects) They are very inexpensive compared to the big 4. I've been reasonably happy with it, other than the variety of consoles you have to use to gather different kinds of information and some stability problems. It does allow you to create reasonable maps and is pretty good event management. It really just lacks a good console.

There are also very good free platforms. I currently use Nagios for historical performance reporting, and it is very slick. MRTG is an older solution that is also pretty cool. So...

- If money were no object I would be running under the netcool family of products, no question.
- If you have a little money to spend Orion NPM give you a lot of bang for your buck, and is VERY easy to implement.
- Nagios and MRTG are very good open source products, I've seem very large, complex network monitored with them, but they can be a little intimidating unless you are very familiar with SNMP and Linux.

 

by: MiamiCoPosted on 2009-02-20 at 06:43:29ID: 23692276

 

by: RDAdamsPosted on 2009-02-27 at 11:37:38ID: 23758962

The sniffer family was also very good.....

We have a sniffer distributed system in our head office.  I use sniffer portable at our branch.

http://www.netscout.com/products/sniffer_distributed.asp?cpid=pnav

http://www.netscout.com/products/sniffer_portable.asp?cpid=pnav

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