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20 Oct 2008
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Published:
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17 Oct 2008
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PDF
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9
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White Paper
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English
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ABSTRACT:
Does your network monitoring appliance accurately discover network devices and computers? Does it detect problems quickly and alert you to those problems? Does it proactively warn you of impending, imminent problems? Does it provide useful reports? Can you use the reports for capacity planning as well as for problem tracking? Can it run scripts or external programs to try to fix a problem automatically? Does it scale well? If you use multiple products from the same vendor, can they coordinate with each other? Do you have to ask each unit to report its results and then manually combine the data? In short, can a network monitoring appliance be the right tool for the right job on your network?
To see how well Netcordia's relatively new NetMRI monitoring appliance measured up to these questions, we invited Netcordia to submit a unit for evaluation at our Alabama lab. Netcordia shipped us a NetMRI V2.2 Network Analysis Appliance, which we stress-tested using the computing environment outlined in the Testbed and Methodology section of this report.
Netcordia's NetMRI proved itself to be equal to all the tasks we asked it to perform. It exhibited an uncanny ability to pinpoint the causes of slowdowns and other issues for network devices, often before they become a problem. It's easy to use, comprehensive, highly scalable and responsive. It's incredibly easy to set up and configure.
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Author
Barry Nance
Barry Nance is a networking expert, magazine columnist, book author and application architect. He has more than 29 years experience with IT technologies, methodologies and products. Over the past dozen years, working on behalf of Network Testing Labs, he has evaluated thousands of hardware and software products for ComputerWorld, BYTE Magazine, Government Computer News, PC Magazine, Network Computing, Network World and many other publications. He's authored thousands of magazine articles as well as popular books such as Introduction to Networking (4th Edition), Network Programming in C and Client/Server LAN Programming.
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