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About 3 years ago
Answered a question: What insider threat detection tool do you recommend to a company with a modest budget?
Off the cuff, I would suggest Nagios.
Unfortunately, the OSE doesn't provide any support though it does offer a limited support agreement. So, if you have a good Unix or Linux administrator who can supply the needed amount of time to configure everything then it's free…
Over 3 years ago
Commented on What Does the Future Hold for ITOM
I have done the product for 22 plus years, whenever it was called OpC.
Some of that is still around in the last version I worked with 10.7x. I’m afraid that since Micro Focus bought the product it’s DOA, they don’t have any partners like HP had, independent consultants like…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Which is Best: Scheduler Control M, CA or Tidal?
Control M has been around for a long time, others are trying to get into the market, I have used Tivoli Workload Scheduler and a HP scheduler both have problems at least in earlier versions, didn't see the same kinds of problems with Control M.
About 5 years ago
Answered a question: What Questions Should I Ask Before Buying a Network Monitoring Tool?
- How scalable is it
- Does it integrate with other tools to provide a full suite of services for your entire enterprise
- What platform does it take: Unix, Linux, Windows or all three. Many only work on certain operating systems.
- What level of support is needed and…
About 5 years ago
Commented on A mature product that looks after all our servers.
Operations Bridge Manager is far to expensive and takes multiple servers to set up, minimally three (3) two gateways and a DPS server. Backend CMDB is inefficient in that when you have other datasources duplicates occur which takes someone who knows how to extract the…
About 5 years ago
Answered a question: What is the biggest difference between Nagios Core and Nagios XI?
I installed it in my AWS and Google cloud computing environments. Following the documentation explicitly, logs all indicated successful results yet neither environment was able to open up the GUI to confirm it was functional. I opened a support case which I've done with…
Over 5 years ago
I've installed it in my cloud environments, unfortunately, I cannot render the GUI back to my Mac or Windows system. Definitely doesn't work for use with my Termux. Wouldn't consider it as enterprise-level software.
Over 6 years ago
Commented on Allows you to identify components that need to be replaced. Needs more APIs to link with other systems.
Great features are IT Universe and Modeling Studio where extensive TQL’s can be written to enhance deployment of policies and creating views for customers. Monitoring Automation makes policy deployment extremely customizable and efficient allowing your monitoring team more…
Over 6 years ago
Having used many solutions including SCOM, I agree it works well with Windows systems, but I don’t think that *NIX Administrators or Network Administrators find it as user friendly as other monitoring solutions, aka Nagio, Big Brother, Solar Winds, while it has improved, it…
Over 7 years ago
Answered a question: Which is Best: Scheduler Control M, CA or Tidal?
Control M then IBM's product called Tivoli workload scheduler.
Almost 8 years ago
While the legacy tools up to On my way!, OMU and OML are very robust, scalable and well designed. HP went off to doing a redesign of the suite. I have worked with the product ( At least I have seen ) every version from 2.0 . BSM and now OMi up to version 10.12 while having…
Over 8 years ago
Contributed a review of OpenText Network Node Manager i: Integrates with other tools and products to give oversight of networks and systems.
Over 8 years ago
Contributed a review of OpenText SiteScope: It has multiple monitors that can be deployed OOTB, which includes basic system monitors for CPU, Disk, Memory, NIC's, etc.
Almost 9 years ago
Commented on We checked various Monitoring software but OEM provided us with the greatest ability for productivity
While OEM ( Oracle Enterprise Manager ) does do a good job of monitoring Oracle Databases and Solaris Zones ( Something other ESM products have a little problem with seeing things like actual CPU...Memory etc...etc of zones ) it does not do a great job with granularity of…
About 9 years ago
Commented on SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 - Very good product
I have seen MOM the predisessor of SCOM 2007, now 2012 which was limited in its scope. Capabilities were indeed minimal compared with other enterprise monitoring solutions. In 2007 The tool improved markedly. Now in my view it is the defactor enterprise monitoring tool…
About 9 years ago
Commented on It has a limit on the number of systems that can be managed but it is proactive in heading off failures.
Unfortunatly HP has an that the OM product will become obsolescent per the below link
http://support.openview.hp.com/encore/omi-8_x-9_0x.jsp?jumpid=reg_r1002_usen_c-001_title_r0002
I have had four previous customers who used the product review the BSM product and find it…
Over 9 years ago
Commented on It has a limit on the number of systems that can be managed but it is proactive in heading off failures.
The road map for this product indicates a move to a different strategy and tool to monitor enterprise environments. OMi will eventually suplant all previous versions of OM-W, OM-U and OM-L. The web interface will be a lot more user friendly. I have worked with the tool in…
Over 9 years ago
Commented on It has a limit on the number of systems that can be managed but it is proactive in heading off failures.
Unbiased review.
Over 9 years ago
Contributed a review of Micro Focus OpenView [EOL]: It has a limit on the number of systems that can be managed but it is proactive in heading off failures.
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Certified HP-UX administrator, working with OpenView suite of tools, NNM, OMU, OML, OMW, OMi
Specialties: NNM, OMU, OML,OMW, SiS
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