Poll: Yes or No to Openview

[sifiguy]

Hi there

I'm trying to get a feel for what users of Openview think of the product. We are looking at Openview or CiscoWorks at this stage.

Regards
Simon

 

[bluedragon2]

I do not use Openview as a main application, but I I do have an application that uses Openview. In the five years that I have worked with it, it has been a very reliable tool.

[Blue]Blue[/Blue] [Dragon]

If I wasn't Blue, I would just be a Dragon...

 

[Rovent]

kinda depends what you need them for, but if you can afford them, got both. CiscoWorks (at least 2000, 6.0 doesn't) integrates nicely with OpenView. You could use OV to monitor the network, ports, servers, etc., and launch CW from inside OV to modify the switches and routers. Plus, it also ties in to display switch and router templates as the backgrounds to make it easier to track which port is which. Small potatoes really, but still kinda neat.

'course, you could get the Big Brother/MRTG combo for free and replace OpenView and CiscoWorks. . .

- Alex