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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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…

    $1,995

    Per Instance

    SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is network diagnostics and troubleshooting technology, from Austin-based SolarWinds.N/A
    Pricing
    Nagios XISolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $1995
    Per Instance
    Enterprise
    $3495
    Per Instance
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Nagios XISolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Nagios XISolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
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    Nagios Enterprises
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    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
    We are actually evaluating new products so that we can move away from SolarWinds at the first opportunity (to something that works for CISCO Viptela routers and HP/Aruba switches, as well as Aruba Wireless APs and controller). So far we keep losing visibility (like many …
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    92%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    89%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Nagios XISolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (142 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Nagios XISolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    SolarWinds
    Network Configuration Manager is well suited for backing up configurations of all your devices. It also has a great comparison tool for seeing only the differences in config. Another great feature is it's ability to push a script to any number of devices. This is very handy for pushing changes to one, 10 or multiple devices. There are also some great reports that you can run against the devices in inventory
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    Pros
    Nagios Enterprises
    • Network monitoring.
    • Database monitoring.
    • Windows Server monitoring.
    • Cluster Service monitoring.
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    SolarWinds
    • Integrates with Network Performance Management for Alerting and Reporting.
    • NetPath and detects issues due to Configuration Change.
    • Keeps a record of which user made the change.
    • Which devices are not being backed up, devices where backups are failing, dashboard and alerting available.
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    Cons
    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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    SolarWinds
    • For our use case, it does everything great and some of the features we underutilize but I would like to be able to set a configuration baseline when initially adding a node instead of after the configuration is pulled but it's not a particularly big deal to let it pull the configuration then set it as the baseline.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    SolarWinds
    Medium complexity to set up in the beginning if using any non-standard devices or configurations, else fairly easy (e.g. Cisco Nexus or IOS-based devices). Reports are fairly straightforward to set up. Updates to the platform are fairly straightforward and don't take a major effort. Easy to add or remove devices.
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    Usability
    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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    SolarWinds
    The user interface is lacking. It is difficult to navigate at times and things can be done multiple ways. Quite often I am confused by how their notification structure works. It is not very intuitive. They do offer a free Academy. They also offer a community of other technical folks. I have enjoyed both.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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
    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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    SolarWinds
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    Support Rating
    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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    SolarWinds
    To be fair, I have not had to involve Support in a number of years, but when I did, I was greeted with enthusiastic engineers who wanted to understand and solve the issue. It was a fairly complex scenario and I have discovered in my most recent implementation that engineering included that option as a standard now.
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    Online Training
    Nagios Enterprises
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    SolarWinds
    Solarwinds has actually produced new training since I last used it that is available on their site at any time. Their previous training was more than enough to get us started but now there is significantly more content. Since I'm comfortable with the Orion platform and the products we use I haven't checked the new training out yet but we have new staff go through portions of that training and they always come away with an understanding of the platform and ready to use it
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    SolarWinds
    it was a fairly easy implementation and everything was pretty straightforward. only challenge we had was getting all the snmp communities updated on the networking equipment
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    SolarWinds
    At the time SolarWinds was the biggest player in the space and their whole portfolio was very comprehensive. As time progressed and newer technologies came about (i.e. SDWAN) their products couldn't keep up with the consumer demands and changing market. Security became such a big focus that once Solarwinds got hacked we had to remove all their products from our environment
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    Scalability
    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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    SolarWinds
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    Return on Investment
    Nagios Enterprises
    • Very good ROI.
    • Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
    • Good results as application monitoring tool.
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    SolarWinds
    • Saves 100s of hours a year in man hours over manual configuration.
    • Saved easily 50k in lost revenue when a switch rebooted with months old unsaved configuration. NCM let us quickly restore a snapshot of the running config from the previous day.
    • Saves us several man hours per week of config auditing by reducing all changes to a summary email.
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    ScreenShots

    SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Network Automation -  manage rapid change across complex and multi-vendor networks, reduce time needed to complete repetitive tasks, and maintain standards and service levels for uninterrupted ITScreenshot of Config Backup - rest easy knowing you can locate the most current configuration and quickly apply it to a replacement spare, or to roll back a blown configuration.Screenshot of Vulnerability Scanning - Take the hassle out of vulnerability scanning using NCM's integration with the National Vulnerability Database and access to the most current CVE’s to identify vulnerabilities in your Cisco devices.Screenshot of Inventory Management - Be able to know what devices are connected to your network, their hardware and software configurations, and when they approach end-of-service and end-of-life, with NCM device configuration management tool.Screenshot of User Management - Use NCM's integrated console to lock down devices from unauthorized access, delegate who can view device details and make configuration changes, and determine when network changes can occur.Screenshot of Baselines and Diffs - IT professionals can get a more comprehensive view by leveraging baselines across multiple nodes. Diff view in NCM’s network configuration management tool is designed to highlight only those lines that changed.