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Comments (12)
Undisclosed #1
Viakoo PennyAlert
Viakoo Free Monitor
Viakoo Health Monitor
It's tough to take a company seriously that doesn't seem to know what it's own go to market strategy should be...
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Undisclosed #3
The other part of the market question is who are they targeting as a customer? End user? Integrator? A large enterprise corporation might have the infrastructure in place for a Solarwinds deployment and maybe even the technical expertise to set the system up for proper device monitoring but large mid level companies without the knowledge depth might find this a very useful out of the box (by comparison) tool.
An integrator might like this as a tool to resell value to their clients having a truly proactive maintenance program to monitor the systems and prevent downtime. It seems like Viakoo makes a lot of sense in this model given it is doubtful that an integrator will deploy solarwinds to monitor multiple client networks. The question is will the market actually value this?
Finally, what if they licensed and/or embedded their software into a VMS or incident/situational awareness application as an option to go from basic health monitoring to robust/highly aware health monitoring?
Obviously they are still trying to find the pricing model and customer but I think this one has more staying power than the last company. This product tailors IT health monitoring to our industry and solves problems for people. Solving problems has value. We will have to wait and see how much value it is worth.
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Jeff Russo
Does Viakoo pull its data from the vms or from the network?
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #4
"From the VMS, we get configuration information as well as device connection information."
From any VMS, or supported VMS? If only supported VMS, how many VMS systems?
What about uptime of network equipment that has IP addresses, but do not support SNMP?
"the cost differential between us and SolarWinds is pretty dramatic.."
Yes, almost anything will be cheaper that Solarwinds.
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David Nelson-Gal
Sorry, missed your other question:
What we are doing is monitoring not just device responses to protocols across the network, but also the IP traffic between the device and the application. In this way, we can determine whether there is an active connection and not just "electrically alive."
SNMP data from the devices can give us uptime data on the device as well as what it thinks it is sending out and not just what the recorder is receiving. Some multi-channel encoders can also tell us per-channel information, et cetera, through SNMP data. All that gets associated with the stream which not only alerts to issues but becomes trended performance information you can threshold on just review in diagnosing issues.
Hopefully, this answers your question.
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David Nelson-Gal
At a minimal level, if you give us a device at an IP address that you want us to monitor, we can track whether that device is responding to network pings. If it doesn't respond, we can only assert that it isn't responding, we can't assert that it is down or up.
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