From the course: Troubleshooting Network Connectivity
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NMS
- [Narrator] Having a Network Monitoring System is the single most important part of the troubleshooting process. An NMS can allow you to be more proactive, instead of reactive. When shopping for a system, there are a lot of choices. Price always come into play, but that should be much further down the list. Step one should always be features. I start by evaluating what I'll primarily be monitoring. I'm a Network Engineer first. So my systems always lean towards network features. This may not always be the case though. A lot of the clients I work with are big data shops. So they'll be 95% server and application, while only needing to monitor a small number of network devices. Different systems will generally cater to different sectors of the market. I'll break the features into two categories, must have and would be nice. Once I have my features set, I'll then determine if I want to go open or closed source. I'll always use open source NMS's because I'm somewhat Linux savvy and don't…
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