Re: 3rd Party Tools???

From: Doug McAllister <doug.mcallister@nospam.fmr.com> > >William Rice wrote: > > > I have never been a fan of third party products because I have no > > control over what they do and I am further separated from what the > > system is doing. Where I am at we have our own home grown > > monitoring software. One downside to this is BMC might monitor > > stuff we have not thought of. Then again we might monitor stuff > > they did not think of. > > > > Do note, I am a bit of a control freak and so like to be able to make >changes > > to my monitoring software to meet my needs. > >All of the software that BMC provides is written in a scripting language. >All of the >source is provided with the product and you can modify it to your hearts >content (or >write anything new you may want to). Anybody seen Big Brother? It's written in perl, it has intriguing pricing, and it actually seems to work. :-) It's more of an overall monitoring thingummy, but you can easily bind Informix monitoring into it (which is what I'm doing at the moment). http://www.bb4.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com