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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
Behalf Of Nico
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 16:24
To: Larry Barber
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] experience with BMC Patrol
Hi
In my company, previously, we were using BMC Patrol.
It costs lot of licence money and for any new specific check, you have
to pay.
The main reason we migrate to xymon :
- licence very expensive,
- only basic metric (cpu, mem, disk). you have to pay for specific
checks (oracle, sql server, whatever etc). you can t develop your own
check :(
- no url check (it was 10 years ago, maybe it changed) with content
search.
- no network/firewall/storage monitoring (maybe we didn t pay for it).
- difficult to integrate with 3rd party (CMDB, Ticketing tool).
i remember the BMC console was on a solaris, and we had to launch X to
see it.
Meaning there were no Web GUI to see the device and alerts... . it was
so slow when you got more than 100 devices. (we got now > 11 000
monitored devices by Xymon, i don t want to imagine how it could be
with Patrol).
the main reason to use xymon is it is flexible, one single tool to
monitor everything
(system/network/firewall/storage/esx/application/url/backup) and you
can easily develop around it to match your business needs.
I hope for BMC that after 10 years it changed .... maybe you should
request a demo to have a good opinion.
if you want to see screenshot:
http://support.sas.com/rnd/emi/BMCPatrol/SASPatrolMeta.html
Cheers
NIco
Le 10 janv. 2013 à 18:46, Larry Barber <user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid> a écrit :
My organization is trying to replace Xymon with BMC Patrol (I suspect
its politics more than any dissatisfaction with Xymon). I don't have
any experience with this product, but if it is like other BMC products
that I'm familiar with calling it a piece of junk would be giving it
too much credit. Does anybody here have any experience with this
product. What are it's strong points? Weak points?
Thanks,
Larry Barber