Comments on: Solarwinds might be ok

By: scott

scott — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:50:45 +0000

@Matt Wow, how do I not know about that??? Definitely going to take a look.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:57:26 +0000

ended up here when i searched for “$20-40k network management platforms”.. you should take a look at opmanager netflow plugin – http://www.manageengine.com/products/opmanager/network-traffic-analysis.html .. the plugins start from 10 interfaces at $650, licenses at 25, 50, 100 all detached from the base product.

By: Reggie

Reggie — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:33:04 +0000

Yah i have to get the card to do netflow on the 4500. I was working on the ASA firewall to do the netflow but unfortunately, solarwinds don’t support the type of netflow that the ASA is pushing.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:25:56 +0000

Reggie!

That does blow about the licensing, especially since there are a lot of devices that don’t support Netflow. As for the switches supporting it, it seems to be a challenge for Cisco to get Netflow enabled on the 4500, let alone lower end switches. The tradeoffs for getting Netflow on the 4500 aren’t obvious. Basically SupV with the NFC. No E chassis solution I think. I’m already forgetting what the details are.

By: Reggie

Reggie — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:03:11 +0000

I just implemented Solarwinds in my network and i think its better than Ciscoworks. The problem i have is their licensing for example…

If I would have bought a license for Network performance monitor SL-100 and a Network (netflow) traffic analysis SL-100, if in the near future i want to upgrade the Network Performance monitor to 500 license, you also have to upgrade the Network (Netflow) traffic analysis to a 500 license for it to work. Even though you only need a 100 license for netflow.

Also it sucks that 3750 switches don’t support netflow. I think cisco should enable this feature.