[hobbit] Hobbit versus Unicenter/TNG

[Kauffman, Tom]

Back when we had an IBM mainframe, CA was desperately trying to find
ways to "give" us Unicenter, until our VP told them that he'd drop them
as an accepted vendor if he saw another proposal in the next six months.

So -- we never did Unicenter.

We did BMC Patrol on AIX -- and never could get viable alerting from the
product.

I have yet to see ANY of the vendor-provided tools that work with a
lightweight client for viewing the current status. Hobbit lets me check
things with any browser, on any OS -- and when you've only got dial-up
access to work with, this is *critical*. I don't have the time to load a
big honkin' java application (tivoli) or an ugly X-windows app (BMC)
over dialup to see what's down.

Big Brother and Hobbit and a handfull of home-brew scripts dropped BMC
out of our shop and saved us over $40,000 per YEAR in licensing.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:15 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit versus Unicenter/TNG

I'm currently arguing with some PHB's who insist that Unicenter/TNG is
the "standard" monitoring tool and we're supposed to use that
exclusively.

Since I have the users on my side I do expect to win that struggle, but
if any of you have compared Hobbit with Unicenter/TNG I would be
interested to hear about it. Especially features you've found that 
Hobbit has, but TNG doesn't. I know of quite a few, but any ammunition
is welcome.

If you prefer, contact me directly instead of through the list.


Regards,
Henrik


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