Strongly object to HP OV and similar. You will be wasting your time and money.
I have trailed Solarwinds but found it is not to be sufficient functionally.
With so many different Solarwinds products I have found it very hard to create the solution which acts like a single system.
Maintenance will also be a great overhead.
I have ended up writing my own NMS - Enigma NMS. http://netsas.com.au
Largest deployment to date is at Queensland Government where single server manages over 4000 nodes with over 200,000 interfaces a.k.a elements.
All l stats are 1 min and never rolled.
You can check out following links.
Enigma NMS Introduction | NETSAS
In Enigma you don't have to worry about maintaining the OS or Database.
All following features are built into the same and single product.
- Network Performance Monitor– 200,000+ interfaces, 1min stats, never rolled (CPU,Memory,Ping,Errors,Discards,Broadcasts, Traffic Utilisation (Bits/Packets per sec)
- QoS Monitor– 50,000+ QoS Classes, 1min stats, never rolled
- Port Monitor– Auto detection and monitoring of Layer 2 and 3 trunks
- Device Locator– by MAC or IP Address
- Dynamic Physical Topology Maps
- Application Monitor– with Web Content and Response Time Monitoring
- Server Monitor– 1000+ servers, CPU, MEM, File System Utilization, Installed Software and Monitoring of Running Processes
- Wireless Monitor– Auto discovered WLC, LWAP, WLAN – VLAN Mapping, Mobile Clients
- VM Monitor– Auto discovered VM Hosts, VM Guests, Resource utilisation
- Asset Manager– All Hardware and Software modules on all managed devices, historical tracking
- IP Address Manager– IPv4 and IPv6
- Traffic Analyzer– all versions of NetFlow, unlimited sources, zero maintenance
- IP SLA Monitor– 15,000+ probes
- VRF Monitor– VRFs, Interfaces memberships, routing, TE Tunnels
- Environment Monitor– UPS, Temperature, Voltage, etc.
- SYSLOG Monitor– customizable matching patterns and actions
- SNMP Trap Monitor– customizable matching patterns and actions
- User Activity Monitor– visibility of all commands entered via CLI across all network
- Configuration Manager– vendor independent, auto config downloads and scheduled config changes on multiple devices
- Maintenance Contract Monitor– proactive notifications on contract expiration
- Carrier Services Management– fully customizable to any operational or business requirements
- Carriage Bill Validation– minimization of telecommunication expenses up to 10%
- High-Availability Cluster– Virtual IP and real-time data replication
- Incident and Change Management
- Intrusion Detection Monitor
- Cisco NBAR Monitor
- Integration with LDAP, DNS, NTP, SMTP, TACACS, SMS