TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued) vs. Centreon

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)

    Score3.1 out of 10
    N/AUnicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) from CA Technologies reached end of life (EOL) in 2015.N/A

    Centreon

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACentreon, from the French company of the same name, is an IT infrastructure monitoring platform.N/A
    Pricing
    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)Centreon
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)Centreon
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Best Alternatives
    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)Centreon
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Meraki Dashboard
    Score9 out of 10
    Icinga
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Prime LAN Management (discontinued)
    Score7.7 out of 10
    HPE OneView
    Score6 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)Centreon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)Centreon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    It's a decent system if you're a pure IT shop and want to become ITIL-aligned. It forces everyone into an ITIL mentality - service level agreements, change management, and asset tracking. It's very rote, for better and for worse. It's not appropriate at all as a customer-facing or non-IT facing self-service tool. You will never get your end users to really understand how to use the interface.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Centreon
    It is a good product that is robust. They have a free version that makes the value good. If it cost money then the install and plugins would need polishing. But overall it is a good product that does what it says it does. But definitely not for beginners you do need some knowledge to set it up and get it running
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • ITIL ticketing (incidents, problems, etc.).
    • Change orders.
    • Matching up its asset management system with incidents/change orders.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Centreon
    • Monitor
    • Install
    • Stability
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • The user interface (UX) is antiquated and clunky. Compared to ServiceNow, it feels like it's 15 years behind.
    • It's complicated - We do routine internal training just to get people to use it correctly.
    • It doesn't have an automated way of discovering assets. Everything has to be force-fed.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Centreon
    • The install
    • More plugins
    • The alerting
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    We have to hire 2 full-time 3rd-party consultants to run this application. That tells me it's not a very IT-friendly, vendor-supported application. Compare that with, say, SolarWinds, which is much easier for regular IT staff to customize without sacrificing features and capability. Sure, we have to bring in Loop1 to consult for us when we need to do a major SolarWinds config change or need a really unusual custom query built, but we never need more than 10 hours of consulting per month.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Centreon
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    I did not select CA. If it were up to me, I would migrate us to ServiceNow. The user interface on ServiceNow is 100% more modern and 200% more user friendly. With ServiceNow, the front page for end users makes it clear: one button that says "Ask for something" and one button that says "Report a problem". That's what our end users need. The biggest problem we have in our organization is that our end users don't report issues to the Help Desk often enough and rarely ask for things through the Help Desk. A clean, simple self-service option like this would open up a world of new information for our customer service team.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Centreon
    Centreon does a good job against these products. Of courseCentreon can be free and that is what we used. So it is not quite the same the other products are more polished and support is readily available. But Centreon is still good and if you have some knowledge can work just as well
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • It helped make us an ITIL shop.
    • It was integral during our large IT consolidation 10 years ago in merging 10 different IT departments into one by converging on one ticketing system for all IT issues.
    • Its lack of user-friendliness has gated us from being able to deploy a true self-service IT help desk.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Centreon
    • It does monitoring very well
    • Details on issues is good
    • Customization is great.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots