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PacketTrap (Discontinued) vs. Tivoli Monitoring (legacy)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PacketTrap (Discontinued)
Score 1.0 out of 10
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PacketTrap was network monitoring software acquired by Dell but discontinued in 2013.N/A
Tivoli Monitoring (legacy)
Score 5.9 out of 10
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Tivoli Monitoring products monitor the performance and availability of distributed operating systems and applications. It is a legacy product.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
PacketTrap (Discontinued)Tivoli Monitoring (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
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2.0
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User Testimonials
PacketTrap (Discontinued)Tivoli Monitoring (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
I would have said 10 if they didn't kill the product. I know Blue Folder took a piece of this, but we never got into it and just changed to Auvik and PRTG.
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Discontinued Products
If you are looking for a software that looks decent but is not something you truly rely on, this is it. I have had bad experiences with IBM Tivoli Monitoring reporting on system errors that were not evident on the systems themselves at all. There is a lot of specific alerting you can set up which is nice.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Network monitoring was pretty on point. Not a lot of false positives.
  • Easy to deploy.
  • Easy to use.
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Discontinued Products
  • The GUI is easy to read.
  • The software is fairly easy to configure.
  • Almost real-time.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Come back! After Dell purchased this, they ended support for it. In my experience, it was one of the better tools.
  • Integration with other systems, but again, it is EOL, so doesn't matter.
  • MiB library needs a refresh, but again, EOL.
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Discontinued Products
  • The software is not reliable at all.
  • Reports errors that are false-negatives.
  • Hard to configure alarms/alerts.
  • Bulky installation (takes up quite a bit of space).
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Again, the main piece was config backups. That is a real big deal, when you are dealing with a lot of customers that don't have a change management process. So changes can be done to a networking device and we need to be able to review what it was one day and what it changed to the next. This happens a lot with internal IT departments, that break something and you support them as an MSP.
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Discontinued Products
We selected IBM Tivoli Monitoring as a bundle deal, other than that I would have probably gone with another vendor. We use Brocade Network Advisor for our SAN also which I would suggest to anyone over this software. The software has not been that reliable for me since we started using it.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
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Discontinued Products
  • I would not purchase this again.
  • Other software monitoring tools have been more reliable and easier to manage.
  • Difficult to manage, if you patch the server the software is installed on and have to reboot it, IBM Tivoli Monitoring does not come up clean.
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