Re: [Repost] Tivoli / Tivoli Enterprise Console

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

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:41:29 -0000

In article <%mWnb.58838$e01.163061@attbi_s02>, Scott Richardson wrote:
>
> "Mike" <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote in message
> news:vq0atu1536d00f@corp.supernews.com...
>> In article <ehVnb.56915$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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> &
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> processes on
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> easy
>> > to use and configure. All Agents displayed in same user interface - easy
> to
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> Eval,
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>> >
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> real
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>> >
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>> >
>> >
>>
>> 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.
>
>

Nice ability to export/import, but I'm looking for some way I can display
directly into curses as I don't expect to have a gui.

Mike

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