Painful Network Management: It's A Sore Subject

摘要

Jimmy Ray Purser's blog post "Network Management stinks" (www.nwdocfinder.com /8932): Packet Trap works well. But the sales e-mails from those folks are immense. Solar-winds is almost as nice, is more expensive, and they tend to quit trying to sell you add-ons after a few months. HP's solution is certainly not one.That NNM is kludged together badly. The problem when I relate any of these packages to smaller networks is that they are just way too expensive when the ratio of their usefulness vs. their cost comes under consideration. But any of the open source solutions I have tried (Nagios/Groundworks, Cacti, Netf-low) also come with an added cost factor of having to get in and meddle and tinker, because that is either time a client has to pay for or that I have to eat as a consultant.