Comments on: Comparing OSS NMS meta post http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/ Your daily IT cuppa Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6563 Jack Hughes Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:27:30 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/#comment-6563 @Orv - The first tranche is here: http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/open-source-network-management-comparison-platform/ ... more to follow soon. I've set aside Thursday & Friday this week for it. It may have to wait till the end of the month before I publish because I'm on holiday next week. @Orv – The first tranche is here: http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/open-source-network-management-comparison-platform/ … more to follow soon. I’ve set aside Thursday & Friday this week for it. It may have to wait till the end of the month before I publish because I’m on holiday next week.

]]> By: Orv Beach http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6561 Orv Beach Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:45:20 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/#comment-6561 Did you ever get a first cut done on this? I think it would be very useful. Did you ever get a first cut done on this? I think it would be very useful.

]]> By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5980 Jack Hughes Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:03:52 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/#comment-5980 @Ronald - thanks for the info. My suspicion is that I'm going to start with a very shallow comparison first, then work my way down. That means that I should be able to get something out in a reasonable amount of time. @Ronald – thanks for the info. My suspicion is that I’m going to start with a very shallow comparison first, then work my way down. That means that I should be able to get something out in a reasonable amount of time.

]]> By: Ronald http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5978 Ronald Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:06:00 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/#comment-5978 I have been thinking along the same lines. I think the most important criteria is who are the reference customers and how many are there? The next is the blog reference count and mentions in Technorati, Digg and Del.iscio.us. This is not feature set measurement but gives an idea of what customers are doing with the stuff. I started with a set of feature sets at http://thinkingproblemmanagement.blogspot.com/2008/01/infrastructure-managers-checklist-for_27.html My idea was to populate each product and give them a score out of 10. I can email you my spreadsheet if you contact me off line. I think the feature set is important but so is the soft stuff? And you are correct! It is a bunch of work! I have been thinking along the same lines. I think the most important criteria is who are the reference customers and how many are there? The next is the blog reference count and mentions in Technorati, Digg and Del.iscio.us. This is not feature set measurement but gives an idea of what customers are doing with the stuff.

I started with a set of feature sets at http://thinkingproblemmanagement.blogspot.com/2008/01/infrastructure-managers-checklist-for_27.html

My idea was to populate each product and give them a score out of 10. I can email you my spreadsheet if you contact me off line.

I think the feature set is important but so is the soft stuff? And you are correct! It is a bunch of work!

]]> By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5975 Jack Hughes Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:43:28 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/#comment-5975 @Steven - good point. scripting & reporting is now added to my list. @Steven – good point. scripting & reporting is now added to my list.

]]> By: Steven Murawski http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5974 Steven Murawski Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:20:32 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/comparing-oss-nms-meta-post/#comment-5974 That sounds like quite a project. One other item to rate the NMS's on is scripting/extensibility as relates to monitoring and reporting. Just my 2 cents. That sounds like quite a project. One other item to rate the NMS’s on is scripting/extensibility as relates to monitoring and reporting.

Just my 2 cents.

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