Network Management

Hi,

The company i work for using Orion for monitoring and alert system, and we also have Airwave used for the wireless monitoring only.

My question is: can Airwave replace Orion as a monitoring and alerting system for all Aruba, Cisco, Brocade, ESXHosts and VMs?

Thank you,

As multi-Vendor solution, probably you should currenlty look at HPE IMC or, at least, complement Aruba Airwave with HPE IMC. 

AirWave monitors wired and wireless network components - switches, controllers, APs, CPPM.  AirWave handles all Aruba, some Cisco, and some Brocade devices - depending on the model (you can check on the supported device guide).  It doesn't monitor VHosts or individual VM instances.

Hi parnassus,

Thank you for your quick reply!

one more question if possible:

Is complement mean that Airwave and IMC will work as 2 saparated management solutions, or we can compain them to work as one?

Appreciate your help,

The 2 products are separate software solutions.  Both could potentially be virtualized onto the same virtual host server, but would need their own instances to run.  You'd have to look at the hardware specs for both to gauge if your virtual host can provide the necessary resources.  AirWave is very disk intensive, so there's need to guarantee the IOPs for the database transactions.  Some customers have gone the route of SSDs or even mounting a SAN.

Hi!

AFAIK Yes, they are two separate NMS (but each one is able to call Wireless related features of the other, if I'm not mistaken...so HPE IMC can invoke Aruba Airwave and vice-versa).

Probably HPE IMC is more Data Center centered/tailored so it fits well if you're going to manage DC-class devices/servers of various vendors (Cisco included, just to name it) and it does that so well that it happens that HPE IMC is used as a Trojan Horse to step into a Cisco-centered site...also HPE IMC has a lot o modules (NTA, AMP, etc.).

For what is worth if you have a site deployed with a Aruba Wireless (Controller or Controller-less, it doesn't matter too much) probably Aruba Airwave is just the first NMS one would consider (a first and one stop, eventually)...I mean that it will probably win against the HPE IMC platform + IMC WMS Module solution...without forgetting that Airwave has complete wired related features (especially if your site is all ArubaOS-Switch based...so made of HPE Aruba switches)...OTOH if you haven't (Aruba) Wireless and you're more worried about DC-related features a 60 days free test of HPE IMC 7.3 would be interesting.

Worth to mention that Aruba Airwave 10 (currently Airwave 8 is available) will be around the corner (read about it here).