Network Management System suggestions?

I've starting using Opmanager (win and *nix). Cheap for what you get (for me £ to $ also helped). Easy setup for NMS. You'll get windows servers showing nic, cpu,mem and disk stats in minutes. It will also collect errors from the event logs and traps with simple setup. Support for any wmi/snmp device plus out of box support on lots of other devices. Also create monitors using any type scripts.

 

For a bargin $400 the DC, SQL and Exchange add-ons gives a complete view of those services. Status and threshold alerting setup is easy which can be templated and bulk applied.

 

 

My only grip is I've started using from newly released v7 which comes with fundemental changes causing shocking bugs. Good news is they release updates quickly and are very active in the forum. Support is cheap and they constantly want to webex in to help me.

 

 

I am setting up a custom device monitor for the LTM this can be shared with the community when they start supporting config sharing. E.g. traps, virtual svr stats, temps.

 

If only F5 would give us an easier mib to deal with. CPU is a nightmare. v7 can not handle the calculations needed at the moment.