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    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AIBM Z® IntelliMagic Vision is a performance analysis solution that helps organizations monitor and optimize their mainframe environments. It enhances RMF and SMF data with built-in expertise to prevent disruptions, improve performance, and safeguard service availability.N/A

    Nagios XI

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANagios XI is an Enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Software, built on Nagios Core and designed to comprehensive application, service, and network monitoring in a central solution. Nagios XI is available in two different editions: Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition provides users with additional functionality and includes features that are designed to aid in…

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    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionNagios XI
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    $1995
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    Enterprise
    $3495
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    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionNagios XI
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionNagios XI
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    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Nagios Enterprises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionNagios XI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    Usability
    9.8
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    Availability
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    Performance
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionNagios XI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is perfect for just about any after-the-fact analysis that I have tried to use it for. Sometimes it doesn't provide support for the latest SMF fields, but that is the nature of SMF data analysis - it is impossible to keep up with the rate at which new SMF fields are added. Combine that with the fact that the description of new fields is often poor, and it is amazing that IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is as up-to-date as it is. I think that less experienced users might benefit from material that more clearly differentiates products like IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, which feed off SMF data, and products like Omegamon, which report in real-time contents of various system control blocks.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    If anyone looking for the monitoring system for the infrastructure this is the go-to tool which monitors all infrastructure related components from server health to Networking and update us with mails and can be easily integrated with multiple other tools as needed for example PagerDuty , Also this suits good both on premises and cloud environments as well. If we are managing complex environment this tool for monitoring is best one.
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    Pros
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    • IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is easy to use for beginners and experts.
    • Search and drill down helps to find overview and deep dive.
    • IntelliMagic has implemented expert knowledge into Vision and the rating of the report is really helpful.
    • Predefined reports can be modified very easily and individually adapted reports (replacement of old SAS programs) are also possible without any problems
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Network monitoring.
    • Database monitoring.
    • Windows Server monitoring.
    • Cluster Service monitoring.
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    Cons
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    • The voluminous data is a challenge for all tools. As always, improved response time is always appreciated.
    • I really appreciate reading the descriptions and field descriptions that are provided with the screens. All additional elaborations will be appreciated.
    • Monthly trending and cyclical pattern detection
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Robust, but visually old interface. Requires a lot of work to become presentable.
    • Small selection of dashlets to construct new views.
    • No MS Azure monitoring ability, nothing for “as service,” very limited Amazon cloud monitoring abilities.
    • Questionable price politics (could make it a lot less for developing markets to actually increase use of the product and R&D budgets).
    • No report designers nor the ability to create new reports. No changes in this area for years.
    • Overall lack of new developments, making this product more and more outdated.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    In comparison to other products (even on IBM Z), IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is really RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability). The GUI is really stable; analyze/reduce jobs with detailed diagnostics; restart functions with Automator
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    Nagios Enterprises
    This tool has been has been of great use and learning , offering exceptional ease of use, scalability, and detailed reporting. It has a lot of customization options and proactive monitoring which have significantly improved our infrastructure management.It's UI & functions are good. Also has built in templates for various end points.It also provides graphical reports. With a Dashboard you can monitor easily
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    Usability
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    with more than 12 years of experience in Mainframe performance tuning and analysis, it was much easier to translate and understand the tool. New college grads without Mainframe exposure struggled a bit to connect the dots, it might be good to have a recording from IM to go through mainframe basics before the staff start to use the tool covering mainframe concepts than tool itself.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    We
    are using Nagios XI in our organization primarily for monitoring all our
    application servers and databases, this is helping us in addressing all the
    infrastructure issues in advance by alerting us when it any server hits the
    threshold as per the initial parameter setup also it has free tier which helps for small scale applications monitoring to save some expenses.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Nagios Enterprises
    Never seen any such outages with Nagios XI till day it was available all the time working as expected
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    Performance
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Nagios Enterprises
    Performance wise it does its best job we monitor more than 500 Servers and we use this tool for Analysis also so never felt any lag
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    Support Rating
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    Really highly skilled IntelliMagic team:
    • Head of IntelliMagic (Gilbert Houtekamer, Els Das and Jean-Marc van der Kolk)
    • Account manager DACH/Europe local support team ...
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    Nagios Enterprises
    Nagios XI support has plans to offer the following features:
    • Access to knowledgeable IT professionals – including support staff and developers.
    • Access to customer-only tutorials, documentation, and content in the Nagios Library.
    • Access to customer-only boards on our support forum for expedited assistance.
    • Access to customer-only email support for fast, confidential assistance.
    • Discounts on future license purchases.
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    Implementation Rating
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Nagios Enterprises
    I have been participated in the few implementations, and I would say its bit complex when its come to initial setup once its set post that its easy to manage
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    Alternatives Considered
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    These are the legacy products that have been used for capacity/performance/billing and report generation over many years. Some are better suited for solutions using programmatic interfaces ( internal billing ), and processing IMS transactional data in particular. For most tasks, however, Vision can generate charts, provide levels of drill-down, allow a focus on analysis rather than report generation, much faster with greater reliability and less required training than the above products
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    Nagios Enterprises
    Cost efficiency is the main reason which we opted [for] Nagios as we were previously using IDERA tool with comprehensive database monitoring solutions, but the slow performance we are getting while monitoring the instance of the database.
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    Scalability
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Nagios Enterprises
    We have installed Nagios XI for our monitoring system and with this we are managing around 600 servers in total and not seen any major issues with its scalability we can scale it as much as we require and also installed on various applications servers and working as expected
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    Return on Investment
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    • Based on data from Vision, we have not had to expand the hardware this year.
    • Any expansion of hardware in the coming years can be well supported by figures from Vision.
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    Nagios Enterprises
    • Very good ROI.
    • Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
    • Good results as application monitoring tool.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision Screenshots

    Screenshot of where IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS evaluates CICS metrics against best practices to highlight availability risks. Results are shown in red, yellow, and green, with detailed views by group, region, or time charts.Screenshot of an automated analysis of 80+ metrics for Db2 members and buffer pools, which detects availability and performance risks. The interactive report highlights warnings and exceptions, with drill-down capabilities for root cause analysis.Screenshot of a time chart for metrics. These are used to explore potential relationships during analysis. For example, assess time-of-day correlations between metrics with exceptions (orange/red borders) and overall get-page activity.Screenshot of where to filter network traffic by class or IP range to analyze protocol-specific data, including encryption algorithms, key lengths, and cryptographic attributes.Screenshot of analysis of transaction rates alongside response times to identify issues or track workload trends. Viewers can break down response times into components like System of Record (SOR) time, with adjustable data granularity.Screenshot of visual charts and dashboards, these showing CPU usage and transaction rates of WebSphere application workloads over time, enabling clearer communication and informed planning.