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calbor
May 20, 2011
irvine, ca, united states
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This is the best multitasking admin tool on the market!!
Pros:

Easy to Use & Intuitive, Feature Rich, Easy to Install & Maintain, Affordable, Simplifies Network Management  

Cons:

The NPM Feature In This One Has A 2GB Max Size So Monitoring Thousands Of Nodes Will Require Lots Of Shrinking Of The DB It's Great For Small To Medium Business.  

Reviewed Version 10.6.0
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The toolset is probably hands down the best Multitask admin tool you can ever have. When you need to deal with DNS, remote support, WOL and network performance monitoring on a small to medium level, this is the tool. Studio Workspace – Great for creating a troubleshooting and temporary monitoring GUI. Cisco Classic Tools: CPU gauge – Simple to use, Love it! Netflow Realtime – Great for tracking top talkers on a switch. Router CPU load – Great for consistent monitoring Subnet Calculator – Is a fantastic and quick tool for super, sub and mini nets! IP Address Manager – is a real life saver we’ve used this tool from day one and use it today to track all of our static IP’s. Bandwidth Gauges – Are so awesome!!! We have two sixty inch monitors in our NOC that are full or Gauge columns monitoring our Port Channels between our core and edge layer switches, our WAN interfaces, client legacy circuits and Bridge-wave link. It’s the first thing we look at when we begin to receive an increase in help desk call volume. Network Monitor – is also a great tool. It lets me know when switches go down, or when someone last made a change. Network Performance Monitor – Was a great tool. I was historically tracking all interfaced in our network. The two disadvantages was the horrible 2GB database max and the tediously annoying drill down feature which took forever to review the historical activity. For a small to medium business with little to no budget for See more..
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aaron.hebert
December 21, 2010
unknown, iraq
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Great tool, but...
Pros:

Easy to Use & Intuitive, Easy to Install & Maintain, Simplifies Network Management  

Cons:

Cisco NetFlow V9 Is Unsupported  

Reviewed Version 10.6.0
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Cisco NetFlow v9 is unsupported. Otherwise, ETS works as intended.
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yana
August 13, 2009
krivoy roh, ukraine
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it's very much useful products for my work
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Easy to Use & Intuitive, Easy to Install & Maintain, Simplifies Network Management  

Cons:

None  

Reviewed Version 10.2.0
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I often use this tools in my work
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nexus1703
August 13, 2009
vannes, france
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An outstanding suite of really handy tools
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Easy to Use & Intuitive, Feature Rich, Affordable  

Cons:

Limited Feature Set  

Reviewed Version 10.2.0
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A great suite of tools that really come in handy when you need it. Deploying a new cisco device with a new firmware? use the simple tftp server, need to quickly calculate the subnet for that network? no problem too! We reallt keep using it in our everyday job. Thanks a lot for creating this cool tool!
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KSCLanMan
April 16, 2009
statesville, united states
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The Essential Networkers Tool!
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Easy to Use & Intuitive, Feature Rich, Easy to Install & Maintain, Simplifies Network Management  

Cons:

None  

Reviewed Version v9.0 – Released July 07
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Any Network Admin worth their salt should already have this in their arsenal. Those that don't, NEED to get it! This toolset has a plethora of of tools and utilities to help resolve network issues raging from the simpelest to the complex.
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