MOM Opinions

[TheStressFactor]

Hello all,

I am evaluating MOM 2005 and wanted to get some opinions on it?

How are you all finding its use, value, and functionality?

Was deploying it and getting it in porudction difficult?

Does anyone use it conjunction with another monitoring software?

I am looking at that vs. Dell Openmanage but I was wondering if anyone feels using both would be a good option.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[rudis]

We have been forced by some managers to use MOM 2005 and to stop using HP OpenView - for $-reasons. We manage different Windows-Servers and by the help of a third-party product also high availability UNIX-Servers. After 7 months MOM has proved to be so instable, that a complete redesign of the installed MOM-Servers is necessary.
This might not necessarily be the fault of the product alone. But for some points it's obvious, that it has its typical M$-features. Just as usual some useful features are included in the product - but for our admins it seems to be impossible to get the beast stable. Noone was able to get SNMP-Monitoring in the box yet. No wonder M$ never appreciates standards given by others (see also the non-responded requests in this forum here). Win-NT 4.0 - if still needed - is poorly supported - you should have a pure W2K/W2K3ä-world. Of course - configuration takes some time for monitoring-tools, but here you'll not find the quality of a marketleader.

The thirdparty product to manage UNIX was still very imature as we installed it - but eXc has promised that the current update will run much more stable. It will have to - else we need to find an alternative fast. The concept of ssh-sessions launched by DOS-Shells from the W2K3-MOM-Server's console doesn't convince at all.
So - NEVER manage non-Windows-machines with M$-Software as intermediate; many other products with years of experience in that subject should be evaluated first. Depending which service-level is required. Rather check out Tivoli, CA Unicenter, Novell Zenworks or OpenView depending on the kind of environment to be supervised.
I used a freewareproducts for some years which did an excellent job and can be extended on your own: Sometimes also a lot of configuration - but after some time you know what you do and why things happen - with MOM it mitght be hard to find out.
So check out before you decide.

Ruedi - BlackForest

 

[lytus]

Rudis, we have been forced down that same path, cheaper, management likes that. I hope we do not have the same problems you have had, but I have read in other places it is not the most stable of products. I have seen that 3rd party unix monitoring tool, I started laughing when I saw how it worked. Luckily we are keeping Tivoli to do that side of the monitoring, "for now.