IBM AIOps Insights vs. Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard

It's ideal for large IT infrastructures that have access to huge amounts of data and to proactively identify issues before they occur. It can automate repetitive tasks and responses, which helps with early resolution. It is not suitable for smaller setups with less data as it leads to a huge cost burden on the business.

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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.

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• Problem identification with the help of data and events much before they happen ensures smooth operations.
• Incident resolution: Provide real-time contextual information on the root cause of the issue and highlight historical data for similar events.
• Can automate routine tasks associated with incident management, which ultimately saves time.

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

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• It has limited integration capability, especially for mainframe.

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• 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

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- Breadth of service—Event and incident management, Automation capabilities, root cause analysis—IBM's brand image As I was not involved in the purchasing decision, I am not aware of all the reasons why this product was selected.

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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

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• Reduce downtime and improve service availability.
• Enhance productivity.
• Reduce cost and decision making.

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• 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

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