SV: Nagios vs. .NET's MOM

[Greg Vickers]

Thanks for the comments, and yes, the pricing is appalling:

Approx $220 PER PROCESSOR MONITORED - so if we want to monitor our 1000 lab 
pcs... we start looking at 1/4 Million dollars AU... stuff that. I'm in for 
the hard slog :")

Greg

At 22:45 05/09/2002, Allan Hansen, INBODAN wrote:
>MOM is, if I remember correct, based on products from NetIQ (www.netiq.com).
>
>
>I had it demonstrated some time ago, and it all seems very neat and
>"Microsoft" like, - click here, click there, and you have sorts of wonderful
>statistics, graphs, logs, alarms etc ...
>
>It runs only on Windows. It is focused on monitoring Microsoft products,
>which of course is OK if you live in an all-microsoft environment. There are
>third party plugins, - eq. Compaq for monitoring their hardware. I guess
>with some work you can have it monitor the same stuff you monitor with
>Nagios.
>
>The pricing is hilarious compared to Nagios.
>The user interface is good compared to Nagios ;-)
>The hardware requirements is higher than Nagios.
>
>The advantage of MOM is the user friendliness, the (main) disadvantage is
>the high costs.
>If you are new to Nagios, you must prepare yourself for some hard work, and
>you will need to add other products if you require alarms sent to pagers or
>cell phones. If you hang in, the product is great, and very flexible.
>
>You should consider getting a trial copy if Operations Manager, if you need
>to do serious testing. I took my boss to the demo, we are now running Nagios
>on a small Linux box ;-)
>
>/Allan
>
>
>
>-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>Fra: Greg Vickers [mailto:g.vickers at qut.edu.au]
>Sendt: 5. september 2002 04:07
>Til: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Emne: [Nagios-users] Nagios vs. .NET's MOM
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>Apparantly .NET contains a product called MOM - Microsoft Operations
>Management. This product can provide real-time monitoring & reports etc etc
>of windows servers.
>
>My manager put a hold on ordering the server that we are purchasing for
>nagios and asked me to look into MOM. I'm looking for ... comparative
>information of the two products. I have a preference of which product i'd
>like to put in, but I have to build a case. Can anyone here comment on
>these two products?
>
>p.s. I just found out that the licence for MOM is per processor
>monitored... so if we want to monitor our lab PCs, we'd have to pay
>1000*the licence fee ... which is low-three figure price...
>
>lice
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