Comments on: NMC http://blog.knotclan.com/2009/06/02/nmc/ Answers to "Eseell". Mostly housebroken. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:30:36 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Eseell http://blog.knotclan.com/2009/06/02/nmc/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Eseell Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:16:00 +0000 http://blog.knotclan.com/?p=444#comment-170 Yeah, as you can tell I'm still a little bitter about the whole process. I'm even more pissed that when it was clear that we weren't getting what we were paying for, six months after the original deadline for the new system to be online, executive management <em>increased</em> the budget for the Netcool project. Talk about escalation of failure. Yeah, as you can tell I’m still a little bitter about the whole process. I’m even more pissed that when it was clear that we weren’t getting what we were paying for, six months after the original deadline for the new system to be online, executive management increased the budget for the Netcool project. Talk about escalation of failure.

]]> By: alan http://blog.knotclan.com/2009/06/02/nmc/comment-page-1/#comment-169 alan Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:57:36 +0000 http://blog.knotclan.com/?p=444#comment-169 Netcool just sucks, and there's no way around it. And you can say the same thing for every other expensive system like it. SolarWInds, OpenView, etc. They're all designed to be as inefficient as possible because they are sold by "solution providers". Oh yeah, you're gonna need a bunch of expensive hardware, intensive training and it STILL won't do what you want it too. Then you need custom integration. That's when the money really starts to flow. For network monitoring and management open source is the only way to go. All written to be as efficient as possible by people that just want it to work and will never make a dime off it. Thanks for listening! Netcool just sucks, and there’s no way around it. And you can say the same thing for every other expensive system like it. SolarWInds, OpenView, etc. They’re all designed to be as inefficient as possible because they are sold by “solution providers”. Oh yeah, you’re gonna need a bunch of expensive hardware, intensive training and it STILL won’t do what you want it too. Then you need custom integration. That’s when the money really starts to flow.

For network monitoring and management open source is the only way to go. All written to be as efficient as possible by people that just want it to work and will never make a dime off it.

Thanks for listening!

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