* jimpop@rocketship.com (Jim Popovitch) [Wed 09 Oct 2002, 05:48 CEST]:
Does anyone have any real references for Smarts? Seems like all they have are partners and sales to companies that buy one of everything. Any one willing to use their company email address and state that they use Smarts? Saying that it is wonderful from bakker.net and domino.org doesn't lend it much credibility. ;)
That's mostly a matter of habit and ease-of-use; my NANOG subscription so far outlasts my previous three employments. ;) SMARTS scalability? Thousands and thousands of ports monitored... from what I recall from certain documentation, 2,000 ports is `good', 5,000 is `doable' and 25,000 is `too many' (for a single installation). * neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae) [Wed 09 Oct 2002, 09:54 CEST]:
Jim, I work for COLT, we use SMARTS across our entire IP network. http://www.colt.net/
Yes, the course that I mentioned I followed in my earlier mail was together with one of your colleagues... there were experienced and very clueful people from Cable & Wireless UK, COLT, Interoute and GlidePath (me) at that training. All of these companies are actively using SMARTS and broadening the scope of their implementation. Cheers, -- Niels.