What SNMP Management tool to use

[ManishH]

Hi,

I've been tasked to come up with a network management and monitoring tool. At the momemnt since we are a HP shop, I am using JetAdmin and Insight Manager 5 to monitor our servers. However this HP centric view does not allow us to adequately monitor and manage non-HP devices such as our switches and applications such as Exchange Servers, Oracle Databases, etc

Assuming Cost was not an issue (which in a way it is not), what SNMP management tool would you recommend that would enable us to control and monitor any SNMP capable device or application.

I have heard of HP Openview but have not used or evaluated it as yet.

Thanks
M

 

[lgarner]

There's not going to be one.

Start evaluating frameworks like Openview and Unicenter. Manufacturers of servers and equipment make plugins for that, like CiscoWorks for Cisco equipment. Get a list of all your equipment and find out what each manufacturer has for monitoring. Then you can find out what framework works best, or if you even need one.

 

[peterc73]

Having been using ScienceLogic EM7 for a couple of months now I would happily recommend looking at that as a cheaper/faster to deploy alternative to the framework products. It has a handy integrated ticketing system too if you need that.