SNMP Manager Software

[hectormz]

Hi,

I'm thinkin about doing some proactive monitoring of our cisco routers and links. I'm looking for a snmp manager that do the job in a small WAN enviroment (5 to 10 routers).

I've read so far about:

SNMP check from solarwinds
CiscoWorks
WhatsUp Gold from Ipswitch
OpenView from HP

Have you tried out any of this? What would you recommend from a price/performance point of view?

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
-Hector

 

[jdel]

WhatsUp Gold isn't too bad, but don't run it over the WAN, it'll kill your bandwidth.
Openview is my personal favorite, after a 2.5 year evaluation that's what our company chose and we couldn't be more happy.
Solarwinds isn't that impressive in my opinion.
We're only starting to play around with CiscoWorks.

 

[hectormz]

Ok, thanks for your opinion, i've heard a lot of good comments about openview, but i also heard that is a little bit expensive due to all the features it has.

I forgot to mention SMS from Microsoft, somebody told me that it can be use as a snmp manager; does anybody know something about this?

-Hector

 

[jdel]

I don't personally know that one...

Openview is on the more expensive side, but we went with a "best of breed" solution using Openview and Netcool.