HP BTODiscontinued vs HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)

Likelihood to Recommend

HP Openview really helped us when we migrated our old SAP Data from IBM Platform to OpenText.

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

This software is suited for a smaller organization with a small datacenter that uses mainly HP hardware. Once the environment gets larger it would pay to move to some of their paid for products

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Alex Gouskos

Senior System Engineer

Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Pros

SAP Batch Job monitoring.
File Systems
Database Montioring

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Deep Sengar

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

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HP Systems Insight Manager is very good at scanning for devices and adding them for monitoring is almost effortless.
HP Systems Insight Manager is very good at detecting most HP hardware and integrating with local management software.

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Alex Gouskos

Senior System Engineer

Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Monitoring interface should be more user friendly.

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Deep Sengar

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

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I think some of the areas that HP Systems Insight Manager can improve is non HP hardware.
This software also sometimes struggles handling larger environments.
This software also has issues managing environments that aren't set up perfectly.

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Alex Gouskos

Senior System Engineer

Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Usability

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HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 7.0

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For basic functions it's very easy to set up and use. However, for more advanced functions it takes a lot of time to figure out its quirks

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Alex Gouskos

Senior System Engineer

Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

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HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 7.0

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It's good for small organizations that use HP branded equipment

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Alex Gouskos

Senior System Engineer

Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

User friendly, easy to access and more detailed info during the monitoring.

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Deep Sengar

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

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Some of the other products I use for system management are HP SiteScope and SolarWinds Orion NPM and APM. SiteScope is another good HP product but it isn't very cost effective to use for general system management. It's good for performing complex alerting and monitoring. SolarWinds makes a great product but it is better geared for gathering statistics and performance data real-time and historically. Again the cost of this product makes it ineffective for general system monitoring.

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Alex Gouskos

Senior System Engineer

Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Biggest support in maintaining 10,000 Linux servers.

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Deep Sengar

Datacenter Operation Engineer

Appnexus Inc.Medical Devices, 5001-10,000 employees

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Since this software is free if you buy HP hardware the cost is nothing which is nice for cash strapped businesses.
This software has a somewhat difficult time handling large environments where systems are not configured perfectly for this software.
I would always recommend having multiples of this software installed for redundancy because generally unless it and the environment is properly configured it can require maintenance.

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Alex Gouskos

Senior System Engineer

Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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HP BTODiscontinued Formerly OpenView vs HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)