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 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...
--Andrew
-----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 9:50 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium Community / Professional
On 2013-10-07 15:42, Michael Sweikata wrote:
Speaking as someone in the same environment:
Probably because the UPS devices came around as a result of an immediate issue. "Power went out, blew some equipment. If we had the UPS system..." "Here's a check, buy ten." I run into the same issue all the time. Until monitoring comes about after an immediate issue, it's a non-priority to deal with it after the next budget cycle.
Hell, I have a shit implementation of LMSPrime that we got free from Cisco, and I still prefer Observium, and will do everything in my power to convince my superiors to pay the license. Especially since Observium has been directly responsible for us proving that our ISPs weren't providing the bandwidth we were allotted, as well as identifying bandwidth bottlenecks, and when devices restart.
Indeed. I would hope that we provide enough information which is otherwise difficult to collect and visualize that we're not too difficult to squeeze into the "critical insurance" category of spending.
This is one of the reasons we priced the subscription so low. More than one person has suggested we are "insane" and we should be charging ten times as much. :)
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