On 2013-10-07 16:37, Andrew Hunstiger wrote:
Well, I for one will be bringing this up with my manager when we start discussing budgeting for next year. To me >$150 a year for something like this is a no-brainer.
If it becomes more expensive down the road I will probably have to justify it quite a bit more (and make them realize it is more than just a cool toy to get some stats), but if it keeps improving like it
I hope we don't have the need to increase the sub cost. It would be nice to become so popular that we are able to reduce it.
What we /may/ do is hive off even more obscure features (netapp/netscaler/etc) that very few people use to an "enterprise" edition.
My goal here is to spread the development cost around as many of the the people who use the features as possible.
I'm a socialist, so (contrary to the right wing US understanding of socialism) I want everyone in the user base who is able to, to pay, and those who make more use of the platform and are able, to contribute more to do so.
has been then I don't see that as a problem. Between some other open source tools out there in the Linux community for monitoring your network/devices, Observium to me has the best blend of ease of use and functionality (to me). Plus I don't need to explain templates to people when they start to use it...
My view has always been to try to do the things we do in as usable as way as possible.
I think we've managed to survive with so little documentation precisely because we don't have things like templates and other complexities. Though, that is changing with the applications system, we're trying to make it more automatic and less... templatey.
adam.