Network monitoring architecture, implementation, and maintenance discussions. Topics ranging from technical to political solutions.
The Product with the Most Features Must Be the Best
This myth is all about the ‘Who Cares’ quotient. Most features just add complexity and do not add the same level of value for the level of effort. Some products do produce some very elegant solutions, but as more customers buy the product the more ‘enhancement’ requests are turned into separate licensed features which are created in a vacuum. Nature of the business, but trying to map business requirements to a sales pitch for more realistic comparisons can be an exhaustive …
The Best Monitoring Comes with a Management Solution
The argument is trying to suggest that the administrative responsibilities for mega suite solutions has grown so large that realizing a fully deployed solution is not feasible. Considering the role I am hired to fill I must agree. The management solutions are usually pretty elegant, but understanding the full scope of all of the bells and whistles takes more time than some projects can suffer. For example, a mega suite decides to change some of the acronym soup they use and in so …
It Shouldn’t Have to Keep Track of All of the Network Assets – That’s Accounting’s Job.
Change management databases are getting a lot of play right now. If you monitor the network than all you need to do is slap on a more robust discovery module, pipe all that data through to a database, and BAM! you have everything you need. Sounds easy but as anyone who has embarked on cataloging an entire enterprise will tell you…it is a big headache. Not to say it isn’t worth doing but if you …
