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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Centreon

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACentreon, from the French company of the same name, is an IT infrastructure monitoring platform.N/A

    LiveAction

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.N/A
    Pricing
    CentreonLiveAction
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    CentreonLiveAction
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    CentreonLiveAction
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Centreon and LiveAction
    Feature
    Centreon
    -
    Ratings
    LiveAction
    6.9
    2 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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    CentreonLiveAction
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    Auvik
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Icinga
    Score9 out of 10
    PingPlotter
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    Enterprises
    HPE OneView
    Score6 out of 10
    Nmap
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CentreonLiveAction
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CentreonLiveAction
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
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    BlueCat
    From a packet tracing standpoint, it was easy to setup and analyze an issue we were having with eigrp errors between 2 data centers. Took a few minutes to stand up on both sides and compare the traffic to determine hellos weren't being sent. On the other spectrum, had it had the analytics of such products as Extrahop, it could have recognized and alerted us of an internal DNS attack we had.
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    Pros
    Centreon
    • Monitor
    • Install
    • Stability
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    BlueCat
    • Network QOS Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network L2/L3 Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network Security Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
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    Cons
    Centreon
    • The install
    • More plugins
    • The alerting
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    BlueCat
    • I use it primarily as a monitoring tool from a security standpoint, so one complaint is that the filter creation process takes a little time to learn.
    • In the digital days of printing less, I do still need to print network diagrams for compliance documentation and some of the larger network diagrams documents do not print easily.
    • I wish the network connection lines were easier to see. They are typically very light and you have to drill down to see them more clearly.
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    Support Rating
    Centreon
    No answers on this topic
    BlueCat
    Can't really rate this, we never had to call support. The product wasn't complicated to setup and learn. We have a high level of network knowledge so the product was self-explanatory.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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
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    BlueCat
    There is not any other product that does exactly what LiveAction does. Some come about halfway close, like scrutinizer by Plixer. However, there is a gap with that product as it doesn't give proper quality of service recommendations, or to update l2/l3 configs to head off problems. Plixer's scrutinizer product costs about the same. It was a no-brainer to pick LiveAction.
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    Return on Investment
    Centreon
    • It does monitoring very well
    • Details on issues is good
    • Customization is great.
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    BlueCat
    • Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
    • Great reporting features for executives.
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