Re: [Repost] Tivoli / Tivoli Enterprise Console

From: Mike (mikee_at_mikee.ath.cx)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:06:06 -0000

In article <ehVnb.56915$Fm2.35428@attbi_s04>, Scott Richardson wrote:
>
> "Mike" <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote in message
> news:vpvid1hkkces6e@corp.supernews.com...
>> The company I work for (just started) has some time back purchased TEC,
>> but this product is not running (I asked questions about this several
>> days ago). Now that I have established that TEC is not running I am to
>> have a meeting to discuss what direction as a company we will take for
>> monitoring. I have heard Tivoli described as a Cadillac of monitoring
>> systems. What I have read so far seems nice, but also that a lot of
>> cycles are consumed at the managed nodes (servers I'm watching) for
>> the monitoring.
>>
>> I'm seeking opinions both on Tivoli and on going with something like
>> Big Brother or Nagios. Currently I have about 20 AIX servers, maybe 60
>> windows server I will interface with, lots of networked printers, and
>> many routers and such. I want something that is easy, consumes little,
>> is easily extendible as I monitor more applications and services on my
>> servers, and something that can run easily through a cable/dsl connection
>> so I can monitor my servers from home. For home (and work really) use
>> I prefer to have a tty/curses interface. I don't need all the gui stuff.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Mike
>
> Hello Mike,
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> http://www.deltekonline.com/faq/indexfaq.htm.
>
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> to use and configure. All Agents displayed in same user interface - easy to
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>
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>
> Worth a look against any monitoring product out there.
>
>

One of the things I want is a curses interface. Does your product have
such an interface or does your product store the events in some sort
of database and have an api such that I can write my own interface?

Mike

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