ManageEngine OpManager - Great option for Network device monitoring
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
ManageEngine OpManager is being used in our organization for monitoring our complete infra devices. We use it for monitoring the servers, virtual machines, load balancers, firewalls, routers, switches, and bandwidth usage. Monitoring these devices helps us in understanding if there are any issues associated with any of them. Thus helping us to arrive at the root cause. We can set alerts so that when the threshold gets breached the notifications are sent. We are using it for monitoring server performance during the load test and stress test and thus we get stats that can help us decide the resources required for a particular application to be hosted.
Pros
- Centralized dashboard providing a unified view of all devices.
- Alerts can be set and email notifications can be sent through the platform whenever there are issues.
- Real time monitoring helps in early fixing and historical data can be collected and based on the stats reported by the tool decisions can be derived at.
Cons
- Alerts has to be configured correctly otherwise unnecessary bombarding of alerts can cause inconvenience.
- The server on which ManageEngine OpManager is to be deployed should have higher resources as monitoring a large number of devices may slow down the performance of the system.
- Configuring the advanced features may require a learning curve.
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenarios where CPU monitoring, memory monitoring, storage monitoring, network monitoring is required, ManageEngine OpManager is the best suited. You can get a complete understanding of the LAN controllers, packet movement and bandwidth consumption. So when ever there is a bandwidth choke or network packet loss, ManageEngine OpManager can let you know. It's UI is easy to use. ManageEngine OpManager is stable, secure and reliable. Also the support from ManageEngine is great.
