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    HP OpenView (Discontinued)

    Score4 out of 10
    N/AHP OpenView, later HP BTO was a system and network monitoring tool from Hewlett-Packard, and is now End of Life (EOL).N/A

    Observium

    Score6.1 out of 10
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HP OpenView (Discontinued)Observium
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose HP OpenView (Discontinued)
    User friendly, easy to access and more detailed info during the monitoring.
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    Observium
    Chose Observium
    Observium is easier to use and "prettier" than most of the other open source tools out there. It's also significantly cheaper than most of the mid-range NMS products out there, and several orders of magnitude cheaper than the big boys. It tends to be my go-to NMS for these …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    HP OpenView (Discontinued)Observium
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    Auvik
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Meraki Dashboard
    Score9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Cisco Prime LAN Management (discontinued)
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    Nmap
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    User Ratings
    HP OpenView (Discontinued)Observium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    5.0
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    User Testimonials
    HP OpenView (Discontinued)Observium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    HP Openview really helped us when we migrated our old SAP Data from IBM Platform to OpenText.
    Incentivized
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    Observium
    • If you are on a budget, this is one heck of a tool for the price (including the ~$200/year for the Pro subscription).
    • If you are OK with maintaining and updating open source tools, this is a great tool.
    • If you are afraid of the Linux command line or live in a Windows-centric world, this might not be the tool for you.
    • If you can't stand things occasionally not working, this is probably not a good fit.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • SAP Batch Job monitoring.
    • File Systems
    • Database Montioring
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    Observium
    • Automatic device discovery.
    • Scalability
    • Real-time monitoring.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Monitoring interface should be more user friendly.
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    Observium
    • Documentation
    • Community support
    • Easy to set up but hard to customise fully
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    Observium
    It's open source. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes the provided documentation is beyond frustrating, other times it's right on the mark.
    Incentivized
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    User friendly, easy to access and more detailed info during the monitoring.
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    Observium
    I haven't used other products that are similar to Observium. Observium is an open tool, with a robust feature set. There are elements of comparable monitoring across other tools, but nothing I've seen that is a complete parallel in terms of feature set and visualizations. If I were asked, I wouldn't have another tool to recommend over Observium.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Biggest support in maintaining 10,000 Linux servers.
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    Observium
    • It is good for DC admin.
    • Only positive impact.
    • Highly recommended.
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