[INUG-Users] Can anyone recommend any other competing products to CA Spectrum that are similar?

Daniel Martin dmartin6 at us.ibm.com
Sat Jul 28 13:19:12 EDT 2007


Doug,

i wasn't reacting to something you said, please don't take offense, i was
making a case for my stuff.  sorry for the emphatic mode and my apologies
to all if it sounded too much like a commercial.




                                                                           
             douglasstvnsn at aol                                             
             .com                                                          
             Sent by:                                                   To 
             users-bounces at net         users at netcoolusers.org              
             coolusers.org                                              cc 
                                                                           
                                                                   Subject 
             07/27/2007 07:56          Re: [INUG-Users] Can anyone         
             PM                        recommend any other competing       
                                       products to CA Spectrum that are    
                                       similar?                            
             Please respond to                                             
             users at netcooluser                                             
                   s.org                                                   
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           




Hey Daniel,

Yoni was talking about ANA and not Precision.

Someone asked me for possibilities or alternatives to monitor and manage
MPLS.  I simply stated that this was possible with Cisco ANA as a possible
alternative.

What does Spectrum do thats so radically different from ANA? Both model
managed object behavior.  Just like SMARTS. For that matter, anything thats
topology based has to model object behavior.

Object Oriented? Isn't a Moore or Mealy or even a Hidden Markov Finite
State Machine an Object Oriented "Model"? Even a Database schema is an
Object Model of sorts.  Even simple boolean truth tables or Karnaugh Maps
orient themselves as Models of objects, simplified as they may be.

Someone was asking for possibilities. I gave them what they asked for. They
didn't ask me which one I thought was better or worse or took more hardware
than another or took more memory or disk space or anything regarding how
well it performed.

Sorry I struck a nerve.

Dougie!!!





-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Martin <dmartin6 at us.ibm.com>
To: users at netcoolusers.org
Sent: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 6:14 pm
Subject: Re: [INUG-Users] Can anyone recommend any other competing products
to CA Spectrum that are similar?

We have actually tested precision with mpls in juniper and cisco routers.
we've tested ospf, bgp, and mpls vpns. we've tested cisco and juniper
flavor mpls L3 vpns and cisco pseudowires and juniper vpls. we've worked
with junos 7.6 to 8.1 on m7is and cisco 12.0(31)s on a 7206vxr and the last
release before modular os came out on the 7609(details on request). i know
my stuff works on those routers because i've set mpls up in our lab and our
dev team has developed against that setup and we've tested our releases
against that setup. we have not tested against cisco vpls yet because that
is some aggregate of pseudowires and was only supported on the 7600 series.
i'll send configs to anybody who asks for them.

i claim that is a lot better than waiting until you get to a customer site
and then figuring out why your stuff doesn't actually work because the only
thing you've tested against is some mib simulator.

OSSL

has this helped?


Inactive hide details for Yoni <yonibs at gmail.com>Yoni <yonibs at gmail.com>

                                                                           
                         Yoni                                              
                         <?                                                
                         yonib                                             
                         s at gma                                          To 
                         il.co                                             
                         m>            users at netcoolusers.org              
                         Sent                                              
                         by:                                            cc 
                         users                                             
                         -boun                                             
                         ces at n                                     Subject 
                         etcoo                                             
                         luser         Re: [INUG-Users] Can anyone         
                         s.org         recommend any other competing       
                         07/27         products to CA Spectrum that are    
                         /2007         similar?                            
                         05:38                                             
                         PM                                                
                                                                           
                                                                           
       Please respond to                                                   
     users at netcoolusers.org                                                
                                                                           
                                                                           



and why is that ?

what is so great about such complex, bloated system ... last few
installations i heard of, had a dedicated Sun 15K for that .

The way i see that, Simulating device behavior on a dedicated jre container
such as a VNE,
is not much helpful than just working with a database.


On 7/27/07, douglasstvnsn at aol.com <douglasstvnsn at aol.com> wrote:
      The only other thing out there that I can think of is Cisco ANA.

      Dougie!



      -----Original Message-----
      From: Zohar Chiprut < zoharch at cellcom.co.il>
      To: users at netcoolusers.org
      Sent: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 2:38 pm
      Subject: Re: [INUG-Users] Can anyone recommend any other competing
      products to CA Spectrum that are similar?

      Hi,
      What about Precision/Netcool ?
      I've tested it in Juniper MPLS lab and it seams to work quite well.
      Zohar Chiprut
      972522499060
      Control & Management Expert
      Cellcom - Israel
                  -----Original Message-----
                  From: users-bounces at netcoolusers.org [
                  mailto:users-bounces at netcoolusers.org.] On Behalf Of
                  Davidson, Justin
                  Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 5:12 PM
                  To: users at netcoolusers.org
                  Subject: [INUG-Users] Can anyone recommend any other
                  competing products to CA Spectrum that are similar?

                  All,

                  Can anyone recommend any other competing products to CA
                  Spectrum that are similar? We have NerveCenter/NetCool
                  and we have thrown out HPOV years ago due to scaling
                  issues. I have seen EMC smarts and I believe it is a very
                  similar product to Spectrum, but I am curious as to what
                  others think? We do have many other COTS products in
                  house that came with the acquisitions over the past 5 yrs
                  as well as many custom programs.

                  Specifically, I am looking to monitor MPLS
                  characteristics. Most of the gear is Cisco at the PE, but
                  sometimes in the core it can be Junipers.

                  Justin L Davidson
                  Mgr. of Network Management Systems
                  One Communications



                  ------------------------------------------------
                  NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY
                  ------------------------------------------------
                  This e-mail and any attachments thereto is intended only
                  for use by the
                  addressee(s) named herein and may be proprietary and/or
                  legally privileged.
                  If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you
                  are hereby
                  notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying
                  of this email, and
                  any attachments thereto, without the prior written
                  permission of the sender
                  is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in
                  error, please
                  immediately telephone or e-mail the sender and
                  permanently delete the
                  original copy and any copy of this e-mail, and any
                  printout thereof.

                  All documents, contracts or agreements referred or
                  attached to this e-mail
                  are SUBJECT TO CONTRACT.

                  The contents of an attachment to this e-mail may contain
                  software viruses
                  that could damage your own computer system. While One
                  Communications has
                  taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk,
                  we cannot accept
                  liability for any damage that you sustain as a result of
                  software viruses.
                  You should carry out your own virus checks before opening
                  any attachment.
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      This e-mail message may contain confidential, commercial and
      privileged information or data that
      constitute proprietary information of Cellcom Israel Ltd. Any review
      or distribution by others is
      strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient you are
      hereby notified that any use
      of this information or data by any other person is absolutely
      prohibited.
      If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies.

      Thank You.
      http://www.cellcom.co.il
      ==============================================================================


      _______________________________________________
      Sent by the netcoolusers.org "users" mailing list
      Post: users at netcoolusers.org
      Unsubscribe: users-unsubscribe at netcoolusers.org
      Search: http://lists.netcoolusers.org/archives/users/

      AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's
      free from AOL at AOL.com .


      _______________________________________________
      Sent by the netcoolusers.org "users" mailing list
      Post: users at netcoolusers.org
      Unsubscribe: users-unsubscribe at netcoolusers.org
      Search: http://lists.netcoolusers.org/archives/users/
_______________________________________________
Sent by the netcoolusers.org "users" mailing list
Post: users at netcoolusers.org
Unsubscribe: users-unsubscribe at netcoolusers.org
Search: http://lists.netcoolusers.org/archives/users/

_______________________________________________
Sent by the netcoolusers.org "users" mailing list
Post: users at netcoolusers.org
Unsubscribe: users-unsubscribe at netcoolusers.org
Search: http://lists.netcoolusers.org/archives/users/

AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from
AOL at AOL.com._______________________________________________
Sent by the netcoolusers.org "users" mailing list
Post: users at netcoolusers.org
Unsubscribe: users-unsubscribe at netcoolusers.org
Search: http://lists.netcoolusers.org/archives/users/
-------------- next part --------------
HTML attachment scrubbed and removed


More information about the Users mailing list