[Xymon] experience with BMC Patrol

[Nico]

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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