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InfoVista has a slick product but scalability is very limited. If you have a few thousand interfaces to report on, it will work fine. If you have more than about 5000 "elements" to collect and report on, you'll need more than one VistaEngine. If you need to consolidate the data for reporting, you'll also need a VistaMart to bring all the data together into one database. Each of these modules will have to run on fairly beefy systems. I've heard that a Sun E450 with 4 cpus & 4 gig of memory is required to scale to about 5000 elements. What happens when you get to 50,000 elements? Sun stock goes up. It'll take 6 big servers (5 VistaEngines and 1 VistaMart).
If scalability is not an issue for you, you may be ok. None of the products live up to their hype. No surprise there. TREND from DeskTalk Systems is the most scalable of the bunch. Each server can support about 20K to 30K elements. Ease of use and out-of-the-box reports are about the same for all of the top products. Ease of integration with other apps is much easier with TREND and InfoVista than the others.
Don't let "a lot of features" lead you to believe that a product is mature. Are those the feature that you really need? Different vendors focus on different target markets and different feature sets. Large service providers look for work horses because of the scale of their problem. Smaller users generally look for show ponies.
Good luck.
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If scalability is not an issue for you, you may be ok. None of the products live up to their hype. No surprise there. TREND from DeskTalk Systems is the most scalable of the bunch. Each server can support about 20K to 30K elements. Ease of use and out-of-the-box reports are about the same for all of the top products. Ease of integration with other apps is much easier with TREND and InfoVista than the others.
Don't let "a lot of features" lead you to believe that a product is mature. Are those the feature that you really need? Different vendors focus on different target markets and different feature sets. Large service providers look for work horses because of the scale of their problem. Smaller users generally look for show ponies.
Good luck.
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