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Nagios -like monitoring systems, OpsView will be really easy for you to learn and manage. Migrations process will be relatively easy. You're getting great U/I that will speed up adding new objects to the system and present data in a clear, organized way. In addition it's easy to create dedicated dashboards for your clients.
Read full review TotalView is well suited for an infrastructure where you are looking for a cost-effective, additive network management tool for in-depth device diagnostic information. This will not be a one-stop shop application, but it does what is advertised very well. SNMP is required for configuration and adding additional devices is quick and simple. This product also works well with Shoretel VoIP systems and allows for a full overview of connected phones along with being able to view calls on an extension/IP basis.
Read full review Pros Easily extensible. We write many of our own monitoring plugins for Opsview and use open source Nagios community plugins as well Quick to deploy. Don't need to worry about all of the dependencies that you need to with something like Nagios It just works. Most of the housekeeping tasks are completely automated Nice visualizations and dashboards Read full review The setup is fast and easy - 500 devices in 20 minutes. The ability to go back a day or a week in time allows us to more easily troubleshoot the "what happened at 3 a.m. yesterday" question. It gives us easily accessible stats for checks and balances like device types, counts, models, serial number etc. Read full review Cons pricey build in cloud monitoring packs need to be improved smb version is missing some powerfull features Read full review If you have some complexities in your network addressing, the network diagram tool will lay everything out automatically, but it will be confusing to look at. There is a way to edit the diagram so it looks more intuitive, but it may require some time to edit everything the right way. TotalView will count virtual interfaces such as voice dial-peers and service modules as "ports," which counts against your license count. However, there is a way to edit each device to remove these "false positives" so it doesn't suck up licenses, but it can take some time to clean those up. Read full review Alternatives Considered Nagios and Zabbix - Opsview is much easier to setup and operate than both of them. SolarWinds Orion - Opsview is much more economical
Read full review The three tools listed do different things with some similarities. For us the biggest need was data analysis, semi-automatic troubleshooting, and data gathering and topology mapping. TotalView hit the most of these in the price point we were looking for. Each tool has "extras," but we felt that the extras provided by TotalView were good enough and that the other tools didn't justify the cost.
Read full review Return on Investment helps to discover and remediate infrastructure problems quickly helps to present SLA diagrams for clients speeds up deployment proces for new solutions Read full review Wuite possibly the best spent money i have recommended in my 20+ year IT career. Read full review ScreenShots Opsview Monitor Screenshots