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    Cisco Catalyst Center

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ACisco Catalyst Center provides an intent-based platform for managing enterprise networks across campus, branch, and edge environments. It combines automation, analytics, and assurance to streamline IT operations, improve security posture, and reduce manual tasks. With integratedAI/ML-driven insights, policy-based controls, and end-to-end visibility across wired and wireless infrastructures, Catalyst Center empowers IT teams toproactively detect issues, enforce compliance, and accelerate…N/A

    Nagios XI

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANagios XI is an Enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Software, built on Nagios Core and designed to comprehensive application, service, and network monitoring in a central solution. Nagios XI is available in two different editions: Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition provides users with additional functionality and includes features that are designed to aid in…

    $1,995

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    Cisco Catalyst CenterNagios XI
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $1995
    Per Instance
    Enterprise
    $3495
    Per Instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Catalyst CenterNagios XI
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Catalyst CenterNagios XI
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Nagios Enterprises
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    80%
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Catalyst CenterNagios XI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (343 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (19 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.0
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    Performance
    -
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
    8.7
    (33 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    5.0
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    Configurability
    -
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    8.0
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.0
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Catalyst CenterNagios XI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Would recommend Cisco Catalyst Center to medium to large scale organizations that have many cookie-cutter sites and the resources to properly provision all their devices. I would not recommend to teams that do not have a strong network engineering team that can navigate the various intricacies of the platform.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    If anyone looking for the monitoring system for the infrastructure this is the go-to tool which monitors all infrastructure related components from server health to Networking and update us with mails and can be easily integrated with multiple other tools as needed for example PagerDuty , Also this suits good both on premises and cloud environments as well. If we are managing complex environment this tool for monitoring is best one.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Again, the ease of use of the APIs and the API Explorer provides the tools needed to write these custom workflows that allow us to do a lot of the automation we’re doing now, saving hundreds of hours by using those tools.
    • The product is very intuitive, and there is a lot of support out there in the DevNet community to help with that.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Network monitoring.
    • Database monitoring.
    • Windows Server monitoring.
    • Cluster Service monitoring.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Within its Tasks - Audit, it can sometimes allow plaintext data, including passwords, to be seen. There should be functionality to detect password usage and appropriately obfuscate the data.
    • Occasionally, Catalyst Center does not sync changes properly within templates, which requires deleting and reconfiguring the template version. Better processes here would be beneficial.
    Incentivized
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Robust, but visually old interface. Requires a lot of work to become presentable.
    • Small selection of dashlets to construct new views.
    • No MS Azure monitoring ability, nothing for “as service,” very limited Amazon cloud monitoring abilities.
    • Questionable price politics (could make it a lot less for developing markets to actually increase use of the product and R&D budgets).
    • No report designers nor the ability to create new reports. No changes in this area for years.
    • Overall lack of new developments, making this product more and more outdated.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    I think new products are often "half-baked" or over hyped when they release, as was the case with DNAC. We were well ahead of the curve in acquiring it. But as it has matured it is now a fantastic addition to our infrastructure. I think we are easing into a stage where it is hard to envision a large organization NOT having Catalyst Center in place. If for nothing outside of the mapping and troubleshooting aspects; using it as a "source of truth".
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    Nagios Enterprises
    This tool has been has been of great use and learning , offering exceptional ease of use, scalability, and detailed reporting. It has a lot of customization options and proactive monitoring which have significantly improved our infrastructure management.It's UI & functions are good. Also has built in templates for various end points.It also provides graphical reports. With a Dashboard you can monitor easily
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Cisco DNA Center is going to help us in security, simplicity and ease of administration. Cisco DNA Center is complete management and control platform that simplifies and streamlines network operations. Cisco DNA Center offers a single dashboard for every core function in your network. With this platform, IT can become more nimble and respond to changes and challenges faster and more intelligently.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    We
    are using Nagios XI in our organization primarily for monitoring all our
    application servers and databases, this is helping us in addressing all the
    infrastructure issues in advance by alerting us when it any server hits the
    threshold as per the initial parameter setup also it has free tier which helps for small scale applications monitoring to save some expenses.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    Never seen any such outages with Nagios XI till day it was available all the time working as expected
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    Performance
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    Performance wise it does its best job we monitor more than 500 Servers and we use this tool for Analysis also so never felt any lag
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    El soporte de CISCO DNA Center es muy bueno, responden a mis dudas pero no he tenido oportunidad de reportar un incidente o determinar un tiempo de respuesta critico. The support of CISCO DNA Center is very good, they answer my questions, but I have not had the opportunity to report an incident or determine a critical response time.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    Nagios XI support has plans to offer the following features:
    • Access to knowledgeable IT professionals – including support staff and developers.
    • Access to customer-only tutorials, documentation, and content in the Nagios Library.
    • Access to customer-only boards on our support forum for expedited assistance.
    • Access to customer-only email support for fast, confidential assistance.
    • Discounts on future license purchases.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    It was informative, but the labs were not available long enough for us to get intimately familiar with CCNA before it was closed. The course instructor was well informed and got us as close to ready as she could.
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    Nagios Enterprises
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    I have been participated in the few implementations, and I would say its bit complex when its come to initial setup once its set post that its easy to manage
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco Catalyst Centeris basic zero-touch provisioning out of the box. You just rack and stack the switches, patch 'em in, and the controller pushes the config automatically. No need to console into every single box or spend hours script-running over CLI.The AI-driven assurance and telemetry are top-tier. Instead of getting flooded with useless syslog alerts when a link drops, it correlates the telemetry data to give you proactive health checks. It literally pinpoints wireless anomalies and bandwidth chokepoints before the users even start opening tickets.It handles fabric microsegmentation like a boss through SD-Access and TrustSec. You can easily enforce group-based policies right at the hardware level. It drops IoT gear, guests, and corporate traffic into their own secure buckets dynamically, without you having to manage a trillion messy VLANs and ACLs.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    Cost efficiency is the main reason which we opted [for] Nagios as we were previously using IDERA tool with comprehensive database monitoring solutions, but the slow performance we are getting while monitoring the instance of the database.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Nagios Enterprises
    We have installed Nagios XI for our monitoring system and with this we are managing around 600 servers in total and not seen any major issues with its scalability we can scale it as much as we require and also installed on various applications servers and working as expected
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • I have used it for upgrading devices, and it's does a great job at that, however out operations team for whatever reason has not adopted the feature.
    • Overall it feels like Cisco Catalyst Center has been huge waste of time. I feel like my time would be better spent on other projects and looking at other products and tools
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Very good ROI.
    • Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
    • Good results as application monitoring tool.
    Incentivized
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