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Blogs/Groups
· Adventures of a Technical Mastermind Jonah Kowall, The Thompson Corporation.
· dougmcclure.net Doug McClure, Senior Managing Consultant IBM Tivoli Group
· Adventures in Open Source Tarus Balog’s blog; “The Mouth of Open”
· Cisco Blog “The world of all things Cisco”, by Jeremy Cioara,
· itSMF New England Local Interest Group - Approximately 50 people meeting monthly.
· Compliance Process Partners ITSM Education and Consulting
· lists.netcoolusers.org/archives/users Netcool mailing list user archives
· NANOG North American Network Operators' Group.
Events:
· Sept 7-13,2008 San Francisco, CA ITSM Fusion 08
· Sept 15-16, 2008 Stamford CT Gartner Event Processing Summit
· Sept 15-18, 2008 Boston MA - Summit on Managing IT Risk and Compliance
·Oct 12-16, 2008 Orlando FL Gartnet Symposium/ITxpo
· USENIX LISA ‘08 Nov 9-14,2008 San Diego CA
Past Events Archived Presentations:
· Cisco Networkers 2008 Post Event Resources
· Tivoli Netcool User Symposium 2006
· Tivoli Now 2006 Presentation Archive
Vendor Whitepapers:
· IBM paper “The Road To Infrastructure and Operations maturity through Service Management”
· The Forrester Wave: Service Desk Management Tools, Q2 2008
Cisco’s Resources
· Cisco Network Management Introduction Page
· Cisco Network Management Product Portfolio Page
· Cisco Network Management Software Page
· Cisco Network Management Software Store – For Cisco Channel Partners only
· Cisco NetPro Forum On Network Management
· Cisco Learning Connection Network Management
· Cisco Beyond Embedded Event Manager (EEM) Scripting Community Example scripts and tutorials regarding EEM applets and policy scripts.
· Cisco Network Management Podcast Series Hear the latest by Cisco regarding Network Management
· Cisco MIBs Supported By Product Download Cisco MIBs.
· Ciscokits Cisco kits for certification preparation
· Cisco Managed Service Solution
· Cisco Assurance Management Solution (AMS)
· Configuring Netcool For Cisco AMS 2.0
· Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite
· Cisco Router And Security Device Manager
· Cisco Unified Communications Manager
· Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) EEM applets and policy scripts
· Dynamips Great for developing and debugging EEM applets and scripts.
· Cisco NAM BLADES and Performance Visibility Manager
· CiscoWorks LMS IPM for IP SLA Monitoring
· The Cisco-centric Open Source Community Cisco-centric Open Source Tools
Useful Sites For Cisco Professionals (Network World Feb 2008 article)
· 6200networks.com Joe Harris’s site for great Cisco advice and information.
· Cisco IOS Hints and Tricks Maintained by Ivan Pepelnjak
· BLINDHOG Cisco centric video tutorials inc. some on Dynamips.
· Internetwork Expert Maintained by Brian Dennis, Brian McGahan, and Petr Lapukhov
· Terry’s Blog Authored by Terry Slattery, CTO and founder of network management company Netcordia
· IPEXPERT SUPPORT CERTIFICATION TALK
· Cisco MARS BLOG by Chris Durkin
Tools/Products:
· IBM Tivoli Netcool . Also available from Cisco as CIC.
· Ciscoworks Network Compliance Manager Multi-vendor configuration and compliance management.
· BMC Remedy Service Desk solution.
· Tideway - Application Discovery solution.
· NetQOS Netflow Monitoring. .
· Coradiant End-user experience monitoring of web based traffic.
· Congnos - Business Intelligence solutions. An IBM company now.
· Augur combines Manager of Manager and event notification like functions into one.
· Alarmpoint event notification systems
· AdventNet ServiceDesk Good product for commercial environments.
· EMC SMARTS .
· IFOUNTAIN Solutions for rapid integration with management tools like SMARTS and NETCOOL.
· NetBrain Technologies A very unique and valuable product.
· Nimsoft Application Performance And Availability Monitoring
· BGPlay is a Java application which displays animated graphs of the routing activity of a certain prefix within a specified time interval. Its graphical nature makes it much easier to understand how BGP updates affect the routing of a specific prefix than by analyzing the updates themselves.
· NetScout a market leader in RMON, Sniffer and Traffic monitoring software.
· Lucent VitalNet –SNMP MIB monitoring product. Easy to deploy, scales well, price reasonably.
· Wireshark free to moderately priced sniffer network protocol analyzer.
· Fluke NetWatch and Response Watch products are great. So easy to use !
· OpNet – Under a broad business arrangement, Cisco OEMS OpNet’s advanced analytical applications as part of Cisco Network Planning, Configuration Assurance, and Application Analysis product offerings.
· Voyence. A EMC software product
· Tripwire Configuration audit and control
· IBM Developerworks Forum For Tivoli
· FindOpenSourceSupport.com Nice list of open source software and support organizations
· CACTI – When you have no money to spend, this and other open source tools like MRTG, RRDTOOL still get the job done in regards to SNMP MIB monitoring.
· Big Sister System and Network Monitor
· Zenoss Open source network and system management
· Nagios – open source monitoring application.
· Kiwi – Syslog daemon for windows.
· HYPERIC HQ – Open source WEB Infrastructure Management Software
· OpenNMS - well known open-source network management tool
· Qlusters - Open source Data Center Management.
· SimpleTicket open source trouble ticketing system
· OutSystems Open CMDB Application (Free Asset Manager)
· Alterpoint network change, configuration and compliance management
· Ziptie open source framework for network inventory and configuration management sponsored by Alterpoint
· Efecte IT Asset and Service Management
· CMDB.info An open source approach to configuration management
· Paessler –IPCheck is simple but effective for monitoring small environments. Dependency setup is manually but effective.
· NET-SNMP Tutorials - useful for developing custom SNMP scripts using PERL.
· Nidus IDE For Cisco EEM
· SNMP-INFORMANT Windows Extensible SNMP Agent
· SNARE Windows event monitoring
· NotePager Text messaging software
· IpSwitch Company that provides What’s Up Gold which is a popular SNMP Manager product for many Cisco Commercial enterprises. Cisco OEMS their software as well.
· NetIQ Solid server and application monitoring product suite that is at many companies. A nice alternative to Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager.
· LogLogic – Log file monitoring, alerting and reporting for Security Information Management, Fault and Compliance Management
· Q1Labs – Log file monitoring, alerting and reporting for Security Information Management, Fault and Compliance Management
· Splunk – Log file monitoring, alerting and reporting for Security Information Management, Fault and Compliance Management