Computer Associates Unicenter Performance Management and Unicenter Advanced Network Operations
We got a bundle of products and a day's worth of professional services for under our $10,000 limit. CA's Performance Management and Advanced Network Operations come with and leverage the Unicenter management framework, and a new management portal is included, translating into a lot of functionality. In addition to discovery, event management and performance management, this package will give you a common-object-oriented repository.
Even though all this functionality was quite impressive, using it is more oppressive than it needs to be, even with the new Java and Web glue. If you have an existing CA relationship or in-house know-how, overcoming this complexity might not take long.
Unicenter certainly has solid fundamental event and performance-management capabilities. The event console is designed for an operator monitoring the network. It supports scrolling events, operator messages and complete configuration of severity using colors, ticker tapes, blinking and sound. Nothing is missing in terms of basic fault notification and monitoring.
A face-lift has improved this veteran network-management framework's usability and ease of administration. It is, however, still very complex when compared with Orion, WhatsUp Gold and SNMPc.
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