Netcool/Omnibus, starts at $150,000. Micromuse, (415) 538-9090, (800) NETCOOL. www.micromuse.com
Software Patrol Enterprise Manager
Patrol Enterprise Manager has been around since 1989, but even before that, it existed for years as Command Post, from Boole and Babbage. BMC Software updated the interface, adding wizards and Web clients, while retaining a very rich architecture for gathering events. Yet, Patrol Enterprise Manager's heritage does not mean that it has any tighter integration with the BMC Software Knowledge Modules, though BMC has a road map indicating a deliberate move to have all products work within the same Web environment in the future.
BMC Patrol Enterprise Manager doesn't care how many managed nodes, site locations, or managed objects you have in an environment. It discovers the enterprise based on events it receives. This is one reason that Patrol Enterprise Manager is so scalable. Like Managed Objects' Formula and Micromuse's Netcool products, Patrol Enterprise Manager relies on the domains it's managing to provide network inventories. This works when another network management application is firmly rooted. The downside to this is that topology-based correlation depends on an external source.
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