-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/27/2011 04:45 AM, Alex Nderitu wrote:
What would you recommend especially in the licensed/supported options and not the free ones like Zabbix, Cacti, MRTG etc.
Those free options you mentioned are in fact licensed -- here's the license for Zabbix: http://bit.ly/sBCGJR Cacti and MRTG are distributed under the same license. Zabbix, at least, is supported commercially by a company consisting of grown-ups who know what they're doing. They can get their platform to do really cool things and to scale better than you could do, because they know the platform better than anybody else. I work for another company that has a similar relationship to a different free-software management platform; see the domain part of my e-mail address if you care which one it is. Whichever platform you choose, you should be prepared to spend far more on consulting (or pricey headcount) than on acquisition or maintenance of hardware and software. For any platform to scale to the extent you're talking about, it's going to require extensive expert customization as well as constant care and feeding. I've been managing networks in-house and in consulting roles for over a decade, and this rule always applies. My point in all this is that, while most free-software platforms suck at scaling up because they're not designed for huge scale, you should not dismiss this entire class of platforms out of hand any more than you would dismiss all proprietary offerings on account of Orion NPM missing the mark. - -jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6pYoMACgkQB3953+hexDo54ACgow6HS+JNtHlNk6aIL5Zs7Fmg Ja4AnRpsqJsxZCHMWzndpvrG8IN7h3FU =DlBY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----