I like GFI – they make great products that fit mid tier companies (100 – 5000) perfectly, and they do it with better Microsoft integration than most – even better than MS themselves sometimes. BUT – this time they have stuffed up.
Network Server Monitor 7 – great product, doesn’t crash like 6.0. Price – you have to be kidding me – $1500 / 50 machines, no unlimted licences. That’s $1500 for 50 ping checks!!!!! Now I’ll pay $1500 for T/S logon checks, disk space, exchange services, HTTP file access, SQL queries etc etc etc. But for pinging my 120 switches – no way. For the $7000 bill total I’ll buy HP Openview. Sheesh.
BTW: 6.0 – Ping checks were FREE, and they had an “unlimited” licence.