Cisco DNA Center vs Icinga

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When you have relaxed calendar for migrating to [Cisco] DNA Center, it perfectly do the automation job. As setting it up very time consuming, it requires flexibility on operations. In a tight calendar, [Cisco] DNA Center migration is a stressful process.While it is the perfect tool as a network automation product with various vendor support, you may also need to consider is it fully compatible with your current devices on your network. As we were setting up a new infrastructure, we purchased all equipment compatible with Cisco's solution.

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Analyst in Research & Development

Research Company, 10,001+ employees

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Icinga is a world-class monitoring system. It can be used for most general monitoring situations. It is not a silver bullet, however, and there are instances where domain-specific monitoring systems are necessary. However, the output from those monitoring systems can be funneled into Icinga as a central monitoring and alerting system.

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Engineer in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pros

Ease of automation and configuration templates make the future you very glad you did it!
The PnP for switches that allow to boot up and contact the network with a pre-configuration is so amazing. Makes life easy!
Integrates well with our ISE platform, they have really made it well worth the cost to have everything with the name CISCO on your equipment. All of their devices work so well with this software.

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Professional in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Wealth of community-developed plugins.
Stable codebase.
Icinga 2 supports distributed monitoring.
Very performant, can support tens of thousands of checks per server.

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Gabriel Ortiz

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

AgariComputer & Network Security, 51-200 employees

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Cons

En el data Center, integrando los equipos que se encuentra en el corazon de la red y previniendo que esten actualizados // For Data Centers, integrating equipment that is the core of a network, and preventing them from being updated
En las diferentes areas del campus para poder monitorizar el funcionamiento de los dispositivos // Improving remote monitoring of devices
En la identificacion de problemas de seguridad de los dispositivos de red // Improving identification of network security issues

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Consultant in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 201-500 employees

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High learning curve, setting up Icinga from scratch can be a bit of a challenge starting out.
If the io2db process fails you UI stops updating, which can be very frustrating.
There is no simple mechanism for adding new hosts and services through the web UI, it's all very config-file based.

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Jamin Becker

System Administrator

SPX FLOW, Inc.Financial Services, 51-200 employees

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Icinga 9.0

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Icinga is a solid solution which does everything it promises. It is backwards compatible with most Nagios instances, making the transition very easy. Once you get the hang of installing new plugins and editing configuration files expanding its monitoring capabilities are easy.

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Jamin Becker

System Administrator

SPX FLOW, Inc.Financial Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Cisco DNA Center 8.3

Based on 7 answers

Yes, it did make tasks simplified in many ways. We can check all the network requirements and even check statistics in a single place, which makes the overall process fast and efficient. Also, it helps in minimizing configuration errors; the processes which used to take days can be done in hours.

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Pranjal Mittal

Business Development Associate

BYJU'SE-Learning, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco DNA Center 8.8

Based on 41 answers

Overall support for Cisco DNA Software is fairly good. Whenever we have a question that needs an answer and we are unable to figure out, we reach out to the support team. They are able to figure out our needs and provide the proper support. They are always available via email or phone call.

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Manager in Sales

Hospitality Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Meraki does what should be expected at it's price point, but it is geared to SMB. When it comes to enterprise networks, DNA Center is the clear path forward. It allows for more devices than just the ones it configures, it provides more customization and on boarding options, and the control stays within the organization. The DNA Center telemetry provides a more robust reporting than the Meraki dashboard, and again, the data stays on site. I see both being important in their own ways, but Meraki falls short in larger enterprises, and that is where DNA Center shines the most.

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Team Lead in Professional Services

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Icinga is better than Nagios because of its nicer user interface. New Relic can monitor CPU/memory and disk usage, but it's more of a performance and application troubleshooting tool rather than monitoring

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Efficient time spent elsewhere. I can spend my time troubleshooting other portions of the network instead of housekeeping current gear.
Assistance with inventory; it keeps an inventory of all the devices you add to it, so it can serve as an inventory of equipment if that's what you'd like from it.
Visibility; we can see more of the status of our gear, if it's unreachable, or if things are misbehaving the dashboard shows that there are irregularities.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Proactive responses to issues before they happen
Reporting of all systems and being able to check against SLAs
Manageability of incidents

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Matthew Goodhall

infastructure consultant

Vetasi LimitedInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Cisco DNA Center vs Icinga

Cisco DNA Center

Icinga

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Cisco DNA Center

Icinga

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Cisco DNA Center

Icinga

Usability

Cisco DNA Center

Icinga

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Cisco DNA Center

Icinga

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Starting Price

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

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Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

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Usability

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Alternatives Considered

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