Abstract

Netreo, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group in August 2005 to conduct an extensive hands-on evaluation of the company’s OmniCenter™, a family of self-contained, fully integrated IT monitoring, alerting and reporting tools that provide easy-to-deploy and, ultimately, cost-effective network management.

Tolly Group engineers conducted a thorough hands-on examination of OmniCenter, particularly with regards to ease of deployment, monitoring/reporting and alerting features, maintenance and support, security and the total cost of deployment for the OmniCenter solution versus more tradition enterprise-class security offerings.

Tolly Group engineers found that OmniCenter provides extensive visibility into systems, network components and applications anchored on an enterprise network. Support for a range of standards-based protocols ensures rapid deployment, painless integration and minimal administration overhead. In our hands-on assessment during configuration and deployment, we encountered a product that offers flexibility and simplicity for joining an existing enterprise network and configuring OmniCenter to collect data from network resources. Moreover, OmniCenter offers some compelling cost reasons for deployment over traditional management tools. This 20-page white paper reveals the details of the hands-on testing and the TCO analysis.