terry@hq.af.mil (Terry Bernstein) (07/05/90)
I am looking for a good network management software package. We manage an enterprise-wide LAN. It consists of a broadband backbone with numerous baseband segments. On the broadband we use 3-Com hardware. We use several Sun 3/260s to manage the LAN. We are looking for software to help us detect and isolate network faults. We currently use some in house developed software to 'ping' network devices, but don't use the 3-Com management statistics extensively. Sun-Net manager might fill our needs, but we aren't sure. Any comments on this software and other suggestions would be appreciated. -- terry --
krol@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Krol) (07/10/90)
It seems everyone is marketing 'Gods gift to network management' software which runs on a Sparcstation. ACC is working on one, Hughes is also.... All the ones we looked at appear to be one release away from truely useful, but come the fall we might be in the situation of trying to decide which of the many clones will be one which will survive in the long term. All tend to be SNMP based products, claim that futures allow site definable mibs, and use a standard database so that custom reports aren't a problem. Some also claim they will allow additional displays via X. We are watching the market and waiting for stuff to mature. Ed Krol