Pete asked: | | > (traditionally) but they can normally monitor the heck | > out of 'decent' sized networks (less than 500 components | > was my last experience with OVW atleast, tivoli and CA | > we never got working correctly with less than 1 metric | > butt ton of LOE to keep it running) | | What are the options and recommendations for networks > 500 | components? back when I had a 'network > 500 components', I could never find any monitoring software that did what I wanted. so I wrote my own. over the years it's been through some re-writes, gathered features, (lost features), and become open-source. written by an ISP for an ISP[1]. find it here: http://argus.tcp4me.com --jeff [1] sorry, I mean "e-commerce solution provider". I can still hear the marketing people's voices in my head...