I've spoken with a member of the sales team who told me that they don't intend to support fiber channel switches till the end of 2008. When I explained that this type of hardware is the de facto standard in SAN environments and should be a priority I don't think I was taken seriously.
Sadly this is the limiting factor that my customer see's as the roadblock to purchasing Orion.
Peace,
Dean
Dean,
I think that's a mis-interpretation of our roadmap. The Sales rep asked me about it, and I said that I couldn't promise that we would have support in the first half of 2008. That doesn't mean it won't happen, but it means that I haven't had engineering size the effort so that I can figure out which release we can get it into. Moreover, the more requests I see for this functionality, the higher priority it gets.
Denny
We will be adding "get table" support for our custom MIB poller fairly soon. Would that get you what you need for Brocade switches?
Also, which models are most important to support?
Thanks,
It's not only the Brocade, it's McData, Cisco, any fibre channel switch that is major market. Many companies grow via acquisition and will have any combination of these. I currently have McData and Brocade, my last customer has HP branded Brocade.
Ideally I'd like to see the FC ports with TX, RX, state (up/down) perhaps WorldWideNumber and errors. This would be a TREMENDOUS selling point for enterprise class customers. I've been pushing the SolarWinds toolsets for 7 years now to all my customers. Why spend 250k on OpenView when I can get the same detail from Orion for 50k out the door?
Please, please and please get us FC support!!