OneSight's lack of network device monitoring and fault collection inflated Empirix's price. Empirix made it clear it would not welcome the opportunity to monitor our entire network! In our price scenario, monitoring 2,500 network devices added $300,000 to OneSight's price tag compared with the $300 it costs to integrate into an existing network management application using SNMP traps.
Empirix OneSight 5.0. Empirix, (866) EMPIRIX, (781) 266-3200. www.empirix.com
ProactiveNet has good monitoring and can automatically set values that determine when performance is abnormal so that an alert can be generated. This automated thresholding and an excellent root-cause suggestion engine helped ProactiveNet stand out. Out-of-the-box functionality and low-cost administration are its other hallmarks.
We installed Sun Solaris 9, ran through the ProactiveNet system requirements, installed and implemented it--all in one day. Empirix OneSight was the only other product to be this quick out of the gate. Installation of the administrative console was likewise a simple download off the server. Implementing agents required that we knew which systems were running specific applications, but was again a point-and-click process.
Once we started collecting data, ProactiveNet kicked off an automatic threshold-creation process. It's not unusual for products to include static-threshold suggestions. ProactiveNet instead monitors actual performance and, over time, recognizes aberrant behavior. Static-threshold overrides also are available. We implemented both and quickly found that some of our static-threshold guesses were wrong. Normally we'd reform our thresholds based on the monitoring, but with ProactiveNet it was easier to let the app watch and change thresholds to reflect what's normal for our network.
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