[SGVLUG] Network management tools

[Joel Witherspoon]

Thanks Stan,

I was looking at SPLUNK as well.

To answer your question, no district has to buy computers from Intellitech.
The state of California has three contracts which allow public agencies to
buy computers with either steep discounts or additional services. The
contracts are CMAS, WSCA and the Glendale Contract. I believe Intellitech
works with the Glendale Contract. We moved from Intellitech to Dell about
three years ago. Dell offered us similar service for less price. Dell works
with CMAS and WSCA. Every school district falls under those contracts.
School districts can also try CDWG who carry a greater variety of products
with third-party service.

One thing you have to have with a school district is quality products and
service. Chances are a school district won't have a large staff and enough
resources to properly sustain systems. If you buy at Fry's the quality is
questionable and the service is non-existent; you're just asking for
problems.

If you are looking for work, here's a couple of sites that may help
http://www.edjoin.org , http://www.socalherc.org/home/index.cfm?site_id=761

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Stan Slonkosky <stan.ke6zc at gmail.com>wrote:

> I haven't used it and I haven't looked into it in depth, but you might want
> to check out Splunk (splunk.com). It won't meet all of your needs, but it
> should meet some of them. There is a free version that you can try out on a
> small network. There was an interview with the Splunk Ninja on the
> PaulDotCom security podcast recently (
> http://pauldotcom.com/wiki/index.php/Episode164)
> I see from your LinkedIn page that you work for the Charter Oak Unified
> School District. I'm curious if your school district has to buy all of its
> computers from http://www.intelli-tech.com as some districts do. I have
> been volunteering time (I am unemployed and since I can't get anyone to pay
> me, I work for free. I just hope to be able to survive until the economy
> gets better.) at another school district that does and it seems that in many
> cases they have to pay double what they could buy the same computer for at
> Fry's and they don't get very good support. I would think a school district
> would be a big enough customer to deal directly with manufacturers and get a
> bigger bang for the buck, especially when budgets are tight.
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Joel Witherspoon <
> joel.witherspoon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm in the market for a new network management tool. I'm trying to manage
>> routers and server and archive their config changes. I also need to monitor
>> intrusion detection and server or system failures. I also need a log server.
>>
>> What tools do you all recommend for these activities?
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