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What monitoring software for ESX, sflow, SNMP, syslog, and WMI?

Can anyone recommend a netmork monitoring software that can effectively manage syslog, SNMP, WMI (optional if syslog + snare can be used), sflow and VMware host logs?  I *think* Splunk can handle it, but I'm brand new to this arena.

Lancope also looks like an option, but their marketing is so thick (or my vocabulary so small) that I can't penetrate it.

I prefer it runs on Windows, but I'm not afraid of Linux if the results are worth it.
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What does Nagios offer that splunk doesn't already have?  Nagios does analysis, while splunk does reporting?
I don't mean one or the other. I mean to say they are a complement to each other. Nagios for the monitoring and alerting, splunk for analyzing and reporting.

We're using Nagios allready, it's great for (as I said) monitoring and alerting. But now we're looking at splunk. If something happens, we want to know exactly what happens so we can prevent future incidents. And later on we want to be able to report back all the improvements.
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So splunk only does analyzing and reporting, it's not capable of monitoring and/or alerting?
No it is capable. But we think spunk's strong points are analyzing and reporting and nagios' strong points are monitoring and alerting.
So trying to get the best of both worlds here.
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