IDS: Tripwire valuable security tool or major overhead

[wcamp () cox net]

I started a project using Tripwire for servers and I am at a lost on what should be protected in a Solarix (UNIX) and 
Windows 2003 environments.  What has been your experience in these environments using Tripwire. 

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