[Xymon] experience with BMC Patrol

[Gore, David W (David)]

And just so you do not miss it, from the same URL Nico posted:

http://support.sas.com/rnd/emi/Xymon/index.html

with a nice write up of Xymon's features.


~David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
> Behalf Of Nico
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 16:24
> To: Larry Barber
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] experience with BMC Patrol
> 
> Hi
> 
> In my company, previously, we were using BMC Patrol.
> 
> It costs lot of licence money and for any new specific check, you have
> to pay.
> 
> The main reason we migrate to xymon :
> 
> - licence very expensive,
> - only basic metric (cpu, mem, disk). you have to pay for specific
> checks (oracle, sql server, whatever etc). you can t develop your own
> check :(
> - no url check (it was 10 years ago, maybe it changed) with content
> search.
> - no network/firewall/storage monitoring (maybe we didn t pay for it).
> - difficult to integrate with 3rd party (CMDB, Ticketing tool).
> 
> i remember the BMC console was on a solaris, and we had to launch X to
> see it.
> Meaning there were no Web GUI to see the device and alerts... . it was
> so slow when you got more than 100 devices. (we got now > 11 000
> monitored devices by Xymon, i don t want to imagine how it could be
> with Patrol).
> 
> the main reason to use xymon is it is flexible, one single tool to
> monitor everything
> (system/network/firewall/storage/esx/application/url/backup) and you
> can easily develop around it to match your business needs.
> 
> I hope for BMC that after 10 years it changed .... maybe you should
> request a demo to have a good opinion.
> 
> if you want to see screenshot:
> http://support.sas.com/rnd/emi/BMCPatrol/SASPatrolMeta.html
> 
> 
> Cheers
> NIco
> 
> 
> 
> Le 10 janv. 2013 à 18:46, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> > My organization is trying to replace Xymon with BMC Patrol (I suspect
> its politics more than any dissatisfaction with Xymon). I don't have
> any experience with this product, but if it is like other BMC products
> that I'm familiar with calling it a piece of junk would be giving it
> too much credit. Does anybody here have any experience with this
> product. What are it's strong points? Weak points?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Larry Barber
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