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OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi) vs. Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOpenText Network Node Manager i is a network management platform acquired by Micro Focus from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and now supported by OpenText.N/A

    Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASpiceworks Connectivity Dashboard is a free network and systems monitoring tool. It emphasizes the website and application monitoring capabilities, as well as monitoring and identifying connectivity issues.N/A
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    OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi)Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi)Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi)Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OpenText
    Well-suited for large-scale deployment without needing more servers. Linux installation is quite stable, and Polling of a large number of devices is well managed. Less suited to Network Observability scenarios or cloud network monitoring.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    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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    Pros
    OpenText
    • Fault and Performance Monitoring
    • Performance Reporting
    • Alerting and Flexible threhsolds
    • Product stability
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • Monitoring Applications
    • External resources monitoring related to ISP
    • Alerting mechanism via email and dashboard monitoring
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    Cons
    OpenText
    • More out of the box monitoring parameters features
    • Improved GUI
    • Independent reporting functionality within NNMi
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • 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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    Usability
    OpenText
    NNMi's user interface is described as well-designed and intuitive, making it easy for users to navigate and perform tasks quickly, thereby enhancing the overall user experience. The system offers a powerful network discovery mechanism that maps out your network's physical and virtual topology, enabling you to visualize connections between devices and identify potential issues. Fault monitoring is at its best. NNMi provides a unified environment for viewing faults, availability, and performance data, consolidating essential information into a single platform.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Support is long and arduous and often are unable to help resolve the issue. We often have to do escalations or duty manager to get things moved. Even with a technical account manager, we do not see much improvement from a support point of view. This is an area where Micro Focus has a lot of improvement to do.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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    OpenText
    Even though there are many products in the market such as from Solarwinds, CA Spectrum (no DX Spectrum), PRTG that offers similar or even with more flexibility the fault and performance monitoring still Micro Focus is a very nice tool when it comes to Scalability and Stability with all necessary monitoring coverage. There is no external database required and hence less issues with integration.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    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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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    • HP NNM is very good at producing root cause analysis. MTTR is reduced with NNM.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • 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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