How do you find it? I've been running the trial and it seems to present back lots of infomation which would normally take a long time to work out. We have a medium-ish environment, about 8 esxi hosts with a total of 45-ish VM's and an EqualLogic SAN. Very good tool but obviously isn't cheap.
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SolarWinds - Any IT Pros on here using it?
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The IT guy here started running SpiceWorks as of Thursday last week and he loves it since I suggested it to him. Never heard of solorwinds though. For free you can't grumble at SpiceWorks
ChrisR
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BMW 330ci sp/ 172Cup
I use Solarwinds to manage/monitor customers networks everyday. Normally Orion Network Performance Monitor and Network Configurtion Manager modules more than the others. Installed and modelled networks forms scratch as well as normal administration of maps etc on a day to day basis.
The software I favour over this, by quite some margin, is CA Spectrum. Route Cause Analysis is its trump card. Again, use this day in day out as its fundemental to my job.
The software I favour over this, by quite some margin, is CA Spectrum. Route Cause Analysis is its trump card. Again, use this day in day out as its fundemental to my job.
Thats one of the main things i want to also manage, trialing orion npm and it seems alright, just need to get my head around it. P'm going to check out CA Spectrum.
I've used Spiceworks for a number of years, its a good tool but lacks some features. The community it a good place also. I love spiceworks however.
Guessing they aren't overly powerful hosts?
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I find it works well. We use it to monitor 80 sites (80 primary routers, 80 backup routers ), as well as the switching/routing infrastructure in the HC. However we also use what's up gold to monitor servers (physical and virtual), SANs, etc, which I find excellent albeit a beast to configure in some instances.
BMW 330ci sp/ 172Cup
Yes. Solarwinds is good as a monitoring tool. It's what BT Sas use to monitor their customer base. The GUI is really easy to navigate and you get fancy looking gauges for bw monitoring etc. I don't have much experience using it to monitor servers to be honest so couldn't help you there. Alerts are pretty easy to configure and are customisable by means of boolean logic so certain things only alert at between certain times of day and directed towards different people.
Ca Spectrum is in a different league to be honest. It's used by major financial organisation and it may still be used by the American militarty to manage their network. It's vastly superior when mapping your network as it automatically understands physical topologies by using various protocols such as CDP, MAC and ARP tables to establish neighbour relationships. This is then used to perform route cause analysis when something does go wrong. Simple example. A single point of failure breaks and it forms part of a large failure domain. You are provided with one alarm (good thing) instead of 10s/100s alarms for all the devices that are down behind the true fault.
If you ever want to outsource your network management or just part of it give me a PM. I work for www.networksfirst.com
Ca Spectrum is in a different league to be honest. It's used by major financial organisation and it may still be used by the American militarty to manage their network. It's vastly superior when mapping your network as it automatically understands physical topologies by using various protocols such as CDP, MAC and ARP tables to establish neighbour relationships. This is then used to perform route cause analysis when something does go wrong. Simple example. A single point of failure breaks and it forms part of a large failure domain. You are provided with one alarm (good thing) instead of 10s/100s alarms for all the devices that are down behind the true fault.
If you ever want to outsource your network management or just part of it give me a PM. I work for www.networksfirst.com
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Solarwinds is great if your infrastructure is all centralised, and together. Management like it too due to the shiny dashboard with animations 
Unfortunately ours are spread accross domains, physical locations, BT Circuits etc and getting approval for the firewall changes is too much hassle.
Tons of useful information if you want to be proactive with your monitoring.
Unfortunately ours are spread accross domains, physical locations, BT Circuits etc and getting approval for the firewall changes is too much hassle.
Tons of useful information if you want to be proactive with your monitoring.
Could be under/over/just right utilized depending on spec, which is a massive choice.
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