You won't be able to find any commercial enterprise monitoring product for $160/year.
I also work for a state university that runs a Cisco network. To put this in perspective, I have paid more than $160 for a small mounting bracket from Cisco.
Typically we do use a lengthy purchasing process, but when the cost is so small we have the ability to use a purchasing card.
Just my 2 cents.
Tristan
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
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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