HP OpenView Vs CiscoWorks

I need to make a recommendation to th managment for a centralized network discovery and maintenance tool. I am looking at Cisco works and HP Opneview. I would appreciate if someone could share their experience or comment on the same.Thanks!

I have both and I prefer HP OpenView . . . it's easier to have your own scripts called on detecting certain conditions, and it was far easier for me to customize. Actually, I had so many problems with Cisco Works that I wanted to attack the machine it was running on with a blow torch. That was in early 2002. Part of the problem was that when I ordered it they sent me -- it comes on several CDs -- incompatible versions . . . then Cisco's Java license ran out requiring a fix to be downloaded from the Cisco site . . . Last, I was running CW2K on a 2GHz machine with 1GB memory . . . and it was a little slow.

In fairness, I prefer Unix over MS and I ordered Works/View for Windows 2000, that may have been my first mistake. Im running OpenView on and pretty quick HPUX box.

Get more opinions . . . Im just soured on CiscoWorks because of the grief I had installing, configuring and using it compared to how easy OpenView was to work with.

Having said all that, I work for Verizon and LOTS of people here in IT, Verizon Online, and a couple of other divisions use Solar Winds, it's a good product and far less pricey than OV or CW2K.

Good luck,
Steve