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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Icinga

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIcinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.N/A

    IFS Assyst

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIFS Assyst (formerly Axios Assyst, acquired by IFS March, 2021) is an ITSM product in both SaaS and on-premise configurations - the SaaS version is called assystSaaS. This product competes with BMC Remedy, IBM SmartCloud, Cherwell Service Management, and FrontRange ITSM (now Heat Service Management).N/A
    Pricing
    IcingaIFS Assyst
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IcingaIFS Assyst
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    IcingaIFS Assyst
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Icinga and IFS Assyst
    Feature
    Icinga
    -
    Ratings
    IFS Assyst
    8.9
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Service restoration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Self-service tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Icinga and IFS Assyst
    Feature
    Icinga
    -
    Ratings
    IFS Assyst
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Configuration mangement00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Icinga and IFS Assyst
    Feature
    Icinga
    -
    Ratings
    IFS Assyst
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Change requests repository00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Change calendar00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Service-level management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    IcingaIFS Assyst
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    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Nagios Core
    Score7.7 out of 10
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    HPE OneView
    Score6 out of 10
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IcingaIFS Assyst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IcingaIFS Assyst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Icinga GmbH
    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.
    Incentivized
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    IFS
    I would suggest that in this product class, you get what you pay for. Although it is was sold as SAAS with a nearly 'plug and play' implementation, at least one full time highly trained admin is needed for ongoing support. I would advise a team implementation strategy.
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    Pros
    Icinga GmbH
    • 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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    IFS
    • IT Asset Management and IT Service Management in one product
    • ITIL framework
    • Highly customisable service catalogue and processes
    • Mature mobility product
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    Cons
    Icinga GmbH
    • 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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    IFS
    • Service requests, incident, problem, and change management
    • Knowledge mgmt is not-existent - the product uses a WIKI for it's own knowledge base.
    • Axios help desk does is not knowledgable and does not follow up on reported incidents
    • Training is incomplete - no real resources available except billable by the hour.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Icinga GmbH
    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.
    Incentivized
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    IFS
    At this point, we are stuck with it. We can't afford a change at this point.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Icinga GmbH
    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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    IFS
    Axios assyst outperforms JIRA in every aspect, JIRA is a good job system but when it comes to complex processes and configuration management then JIRA is simply not the right system.
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    Return on Investment
    Icinga GmbH
    • With one check you know which applications are faulty e.g. after an upgrade. Which is big time saver
    • You easily detect outages ion the applications so that your customer ideally does not even realize there was an outage.
    • Detect if the environment does deliver the same result as in the same time as before to detect shortages.
    • Additional information when debugging. Saved us several hours where we could simply point to a database which was slow.
    Incentivized
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    IFS
    • Replacement of 3 systems with Axios assyst
    • Integration with other enterprise systems
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