Great Network Tool
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use OpManager daily for network, server and firewall monitoring. It has great alerts like rouge detection and failures throughout the network. Firewall rules can be managed on it as well as any alert you have setup for threshold peaks and just overall switch and router health. It has so many different uses. The problem it has solved for us is network transparency. We can see a lot more of the things going on with our systems and network with this product
Pros
- Rogue detection for people who just plug in my network
- threshold monitoring when spikes of data usage are moving across the Newtwork
- alerts when thing are removed or added to the network and alerts on port failure
Cons
- I find it difficult sometimes to setup certain monitor
- other uses I am not taking advantage of I am sure there are many
- training on setting up proper monitors
Likelihood to Recommend
As a bank this has suited us well as we do not need 3rd party vendors trying to manage our network. It might not be suitable if it is placed in an environment where you have the one switch and possibly a firewall or very limited production
