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Does anyone have a recommendation on a good monitoring tool that
incorporates all this?:

1) SNMP
2) Cisco Netflow
3) Services & application monitoring (like for Windows servers)

I'd prefer something that runs on Windows, and cost is not so much of
a concern. I'm (well, our company) is not interested in free or Linux
utilities. No flames on that please.

We currently use Solarwinds Orion which does #1 very well, and can
also do #3 with an additional module. It's our ideal tool, but it
can't view more granular than SNMP. Cisco Netflow is really nice, but
I'm using freeware tools at the moment which don't massage or
correlate the data as nicely as Enterprise solutions. I would be
great to have something that can give up/down data, services
monitoring, bandwidth usage, and be able to drill down further and get
Netflow info on the protocols being used by my Cisco routers.

The AdventNet OpManager + NetFlow Analyzer looks like it might fit the
bill, but I've never heard of it other than looking at their web page.

Any others that include all the features I want?

-Bob

I use OpManager, it's pretty good and full of excellent fetaures

Did you look at any other monitoring apps or rule anything else out?



On 8 Dec 2005 05:48:58 -0800, "Dave" <> wrote:

>I use OpManager, it's pretty good and full of excellent fetaures

Rob wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommendation on a good monitoring tool that
> incorporates all this?:
>
> 1) SNMP
> 2) Cisco Netflow
> 3) Services & application monitoring (like for Windows servers)
>
> I'd prefer something that runs on Windows, and cost is not so much of
> a concern. I'm (well, our company) is not interested in free or Linux
> utilities. No flames on that please.
>
> We currently use Solarwinds Orion which does #1 very well, and can
> also do #3 with an additional module. It's our ideal tool, but it
> can't view more granular than SNMP. Cisco Netflow is really nice, but
> I'm using freeware tools at the moment which don't massage or
> correlate the data as nicely as Enterprise solutions. I would be
> great to have something that can give up/down data, services
> monitoring, bandwidth usage, and be able to drill down further and get
> Netflow info on the protocols being used by my Cisco routers.
>
> The AdventNet OpManager + NetFlow Analyzer looks like it might fit the
> bill, but I've never heard of it other than looking at their web page.
>
> Any others that include all the features I want?
>
> -Bob
>
If willing to pay for something for an enterprise solution that can also
pull netflow data, Then check out netscout. great product and can do
many things.

Of course, I perfer using Nagoius on Linux and is free, just what you do
not want.

I can understand not having to support Linux or have to install
opensource which sometimes can be tricky if not familiar but works great
if know what you are doing.

Rob wrote:

> Does anyone have a recommendation on a good monitoring tool that
> incorporates all this?:
>
> 1) SNMP
> 2) Cisco Netflow
> 3) Services & application monitoring (like for Windows servers)
>
> I'd prefer something that runs on Windows, and cost is not so much of
> a concern. I'm (well, our company) is not interested in free or Linux
> utilities. No flames on that please.
>
> We currently use Solarwinds Orion which does #1 very well, and can
> also do #3 with an additional module. It's our ideal tool, but it
> can't view more granular than SNMP. Cisco Netflow is really nice, but
> I'm using freeware tools at the moment which don't massage or
> correlate the data as nicely as Enterprise solutions. I would be
> great to have something that can give up/down data, services
> monitoring, bandwidth usage, and be able to drill down further and get
> Netflow info on the protocols being used by my Cisco routers.
>
> The AdventNet OpManager + NetFlow Analyzer looks like it might fit the
> bill, but I've never heard of it other than looking at their web page.
>
> Any others that include all the features I want?
>


For netflow (among other things), take a look at Crannog
http://www.crannog-software.com/




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I have a SolarWinds Orion box as well, does Cisco specific (SNMP) stuff
fairly well. Good for quickly finding interface errors. Sux at alerting
though. Doesn't realert, escalate or support awknowlegments.

We replaced it with Nagios, kicks butt but I'm not sure if you can get
it on a Windows box. I still keep the Orion box active for the interface
statistics though, but I don't let it alert.

Wil
my 3¢

Looks interesting. Does it do more than Solarwinds, other than better
alerting? Netflow support?



On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:36:37 -0800, Wil <> wrote:

>I have a SolarWinds Orion box as well, does Cisco specific (SNMP) stuff
>fairly well. Good for quickly finding interface errors. Sux at alerting
>though. Doesn't realert, escalate or support awknowlegments.
>
>We replaced it with Nagios, kicks butt but I'm not sure if you can get
>it on a Windows box. I still keep the Orion box active for the interface
>statistics though, but I don't let it alert.
>
>Wil
>my 3¢