Re: [Repost] Tivoli / Tivoli Enterprise Console

From: Scott Richardson (CheetahFTL_at_attbi.com)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:33:52 GMT

"Mike" <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote in message
news:vq0atu1536d00f@corp.supernews.com...
> 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,
> > Please check out the DPMonitor at http://www.deltekonline.com and
> > http://www.deltekonline.com/faq/indexfaq.htm.
> >
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&
> > Solaris (2.6, 2.7 & 2.8) & even Oracle, as well as individual
processes on
> > these platforms, and has Probes, which are extremely user extensible,
easy
> > to use and configure. All Agents displayed in same user interface - easy
to
> > read dynamic, auto-scaling, colorful graphs. Easy to use remotely and
> > onsite. Extremely low overhead Agents, and accurate statistics. 10 day
> > Evaluation license available, (for one Agent, OS level stats only on
Eval,
> > one Explorer - Explorer runs on Windows).
> >
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> > product more accessible for lower end single CPU systems). Developer is
real
> > sharp, flexible, and responsive to needs/desires.
> >
> > 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

Agent data is stored in a small foot print database, (very fast &
compressed).
Data from any graph is quickly & easily exported into a CSV format, for
import/use in whatever other tool or spread*** or utility you desire.

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