The Nerve Center Lives

April 1st, 2008 by Louis DiMeglio

You may have read our earlier post about being selected as an InteropNet sponsor and the mixed feelings of elation and trepidation we felt upon being selected as the monitoring and help desk vendor for Interop. As the technical lead at ScienceLogic on this project, I felt it even more.

The good news is that as we’ve moved forward with the preparations for Interop, I’ve grown completely confident that we submitted the exact right proposal and that in choosing EM7, the InteropNet folks have made the right choice to accomplish their goals. As two of the three stated main goals for the Interop.net effort are Monitoring and Statistics, EM7 and its plethora of options in both areas fits perfectly. My personal goal for InteropNet – earn a good nickname (and not “DIM” as Julia thought of when I mentioned it).

Although I’m very excited about providing the best monitoring and reporting experience that the Interop folks have ever had, it’s quite an effort to do so. As a previous exhibitor I never really understood the sheer scale and effort that goes in to delivering the type of network that other trade shows could only dream of.

This year that effort includes 17 vendors, miles of fiber and cable, dozens of wireless access points, dozens of switches, various servers, VMs, DNS appliances, UPSes, KVMs, etc etc and one EM7 system. We are flattered that EM7 will be the one NMS to rule them all, and in preparation for the show we are adding over 160 vendor MIBs to EM7 and building dozens of new monitoring profiles not only to monitor other vendor equipment directly, but also to integrate with management systems the vendors themselves may provide.

Good news for our customers: we’re getting some “cookbooks” on what and how to monitor gear directly from the vendors themselves. You’ll definitely see it in future releases of the EM7 Dynamic Applications that provide the monitoring templates in the product, out-of-the-box.

For ScienceLogic, this is one of the biggest undertakings we’ve taken on as a company. It’s my estimate that between staff helping with InteropNet effort and the staff manning our show booth we’ll have about 50% of the ScienceLogic staff in Las Vegas during the week of the show. That’s not a complaint, just a figure to give you an idea of what it takes as a small company newcomer, to make an impact on an effort as large as InteropNet. So far, so good, and I’d recommend it to anyone.

Stay tuned for my updates as we get in to the nitty-gritty of the deployment for the show and hopefully my opinion will stay the same.

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April 1st, 2008