GSX Monitor Review:
Review of GSX 9.3
By Paul Mooney
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Rating: 4 out of 5.
GSX released the point release of their monitor/Analyzer product in early May 2010. It’s no secret I am a fan of the product, warts and all. The depth of the features available and the level of detail in the gsx monitor suite is very impressive. Their Achilles heel is the UI. Some of the best features are not intuitively visible, and you really need a diving suit to get into its depths. So 9.3 is hot off the press and armed with my 9.2 software, and test servers built and operational, I fire everything up and get ready to go. The aim of this review is to test the upgrade process from 9.2 to 9.3, assess the new features (as per release notes and pdf files available from the gsx site, and give my thoughts on what was done. To keep things simple, I will look at the new features of monitor and Analyzer in turn.
GSX Monitor and Analyzer are two of the strongest tools in my arsenal when caring for an environment. In my opinion they re not plug and play monitoring tools at all. They require work, configuration and respect. But the return is immense. All in all 9.3 has a lot of new features for a simple point release. Some of the issues with the product have been resolved, but there is more to complete. I look forward to the 10.0 release next year but after spending a day with this build, the upgrade to 9.3 alone is worth it.
See the entire review here: http://www.pmooney.net/dload/techdocs/GSX93Review.pdf