At my previous job we had solarwinds. It was nice, but pricey. And honestly we didn't use it to its full potential. We had the SL500 and only monitored about 100 network devices, about 80 servers, and 20 or so volumes.
I'm now at a new organization that is substantially larger and we are looking for a solution. We just purchased PRTG just to get 'something' in and monitoring our WAN links while we look for something permanent.
This new environment has about 1,200 network devices, about 200 servers, and 2 separate SAN's (EMC and Nimble).
I'm looking for something that is AD/LDAP integrated for authentication, has a NOC view for our helpdesk that is easy to understand at a glance, can be clustered, runs on windows and must support MSSQL.
I'm not super familiar with PRTG but from what I read it will do most of this but doesn't support SQL. We CAN afford solarwinds if we want to go that route but if there are alternatives that are the same price or cheaper and will still hit all the requirements I'm open.
I'm leaning towards solarwinds for a few reasons.
1) I'm familiar with it already (especially advanced alert monitoring)
2) We can add modules such as App Monitoring, Storage monitoring, etc as we get more embedded.
Any other suggestions? (Please only enterprise solutions. I'm sorry but Cacti is not an enterprise solution)
I'm now at a new organization that is substantially larger and we are looking for a solution. We just purchased PRTG just to get 'something' in and monitoring our WAN links while we look for something permanent.
This new environment has about 1,200 network devices, about 200 servers, and 2 separate SAN's (EMC and Nimble).
I'm looking for something that is AD/LDAP integrated for authentication, has a NOC view for our helpdesk that is easy to understand at a glance, can be clustered, runs on windows and must support MSSQL.
I'm not super familiar with PRTG but from what I read it will do most of this but doesn't support SQL. We CAN afford solarwinds if we want to go that route but if there are alternatives that are the same price or cheaper and will still hit all the requirements I'm open.
I'm leaning towards solarwinds for a few reasons.
1) I'm familiar with it already (especially advanced alert monitoring)
2) We can add modules such as App Monitoring, Storage monitoring, etc as we get more embedded.
Any other suggestions? (Please only enterprise solutions. I'm sorry but Cacti is not an enterprise solution)