Cirries Packet Capture vs. Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard

hassle free of IT resources is plus point. Monitoring the external resources related to Websites, service provider links or any hosted applications is a great feature in Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard. Alert reporting on monitored resources is at ease. Integration with custom devices needs to be improved. devices integrated with snmp protocol is not reported with full details which needs to be rectified by Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard.

Incentivized

• Monitoring Applications
• External resources monitoring related to ISP
• Alerting mechanism via email and dashboard monitoring

Incentivized

• Integration with custom devices needs to be improved
• providing more insight of device is required when added to monitoring list
• the feel and look of dashboard needs some improvement
• Agent is resource hungry, to be made light weight for systems

Incentivized

Spiceworks Network Monitor being a free tool, can easily be overtaken against any other product which is cost involved and most of the features are available which are provided by any leading network monitoring tool available in the market. Few of the features which are not present in spiceworks tool (like autodiscovery of resources) needs to be added which will give a great competition for the product. Alerting features, response tickets, sending alerts via email is one of the great features in the product

Incentivized

• if on premises cannot be deployed on Linux environment which needs windows license requirement
• competitive price makes easy for decision
• lacking in auto discovery of devices is the most negative point for ROI

Incentivized