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Ryan Milton

3 Nov 2015 3 Nov '15

5:27 p.m.

I am thinking of pushing team to purchase the full version, and even for some support.

I have a free version now

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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Josh Hopper

3 Nov 3 Nov

5:40 p.m.

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

[cid:image001.png@01D1162C.815EF0B0] 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

Łukasz Sztukowski

7:04 p.m.

I'm using WUG parallel to observium because one senior network guy likes it.

Only top interfaces in WUG is feature I'm missing in observium. Alerting, graphing and discovery are horrible in WUG.

2015-11-03 17:40 GMT+01:00 Josh Hopper joshhopper@protectplus.com:

...

Questions I have are the following for my managers:
  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.
  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.
  We use WUG, which I hate… how is this better?
No idea what that is.
  We use Solarwinds, which is expensive, why is this better?
Agentless. Less money. Works with RANCID. Works in general.
  (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

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Josh Hopper

7:21 p.m.

Sort your All Ports view by bandwidth? Shows the most active based on your poll rate.

-- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Sr. Network Administrator [cid:image002.jpg@01D1163A.8B8F65C0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Lukasz Sztukowski Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 1:05 PM To: Observium Network Observation System observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] General pre-buy questions

I'm using WUG parallel to observium because one senior network guy likes it.

Only top interfaces in WUG is feature I'm missing in observium. Alerting, graphing and discovery are horrible in WUG.

2015-11-03 17:40 GMT+01:00 Josh Hopper <joshhopper@protectplus.commailto:joshhopper@protectplus.com>: 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

[cid:image003.png@01D1163A.8B8F65C0] 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

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Łukasz Sztukowski

7:24 p.m.

I was thinking about displaying it on main webpage like map or syslog.

2015-11-03 19:21 GMT+01:00 Josh Hopper joshhopper@protectplus.com:

...

Sort your All Ports view by bandwidth? Shows the most active based on your poll rate.

--

Sincerely,

Joshua Hopper, A+ CE

*Sr. Network Administrator*

[image: http://www.protectplus.com/images/ppluslogo.jpg]
        420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601
Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

*From:* observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *On Behalf Of *Lukasz Sztukowski *Sent:* Tuesday, November 3, 2015 1:05 PM *To:* Observium Network Observation System observium@observium.org *Subject:* Re: [Observium] General pre-buy questions

I'm using WUG parallel to observium because one senior network guy likes it.

Only top interfaces in WUG is feature I'm missing in observium. Alerting, graphing and discovery are horrible in WUG.

2015-11-03 17:40 GMT+01:00 Josh Hopper joshhopper@protectplus.com:

Questions I have are the following for my managers:
  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.
  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.
  We use WUG, which I hate… how is this better?
No idea what that is.
  We use Solarwinds, which is expensive, why is this better?
Agentless. Less money. Works with RANCID. Works in general.
  (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

observium mailing list observium@observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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