Questions I have are the following for my managers:

1. Can I alert off of bandwidth utilization? What other types of things can I alert off for the enterprise?

Yes. Look at their website. They list it all.

2. Can I alert for jitter across an MPLS? This is a biggie, because we have about 40 circuits. 

No. Unless they just added it and I haven’t looked in a while. Your ISP should though.

3. We use WUG, which I hate… how is this better?

No idea what that is.

4. We use Solarwinds, which is expensive, why is this better?

Agentless. Less money. Works with RANCID. Works in general.

5. (I know this is bad form, but) why these bars in the graph:

Last time I had this it was DNS issues or actual drops in connections. Sh logg on your equipment. Repadmin /replsummary

Thanks for your awesome answers, and please, give me some reasons that I can use to get team to put money into this.

Ryan Milton