We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"The interface is ergonomic and native. We can use UCS Manager to do all the configurations for the servers, including storage, networking, and all the other components we need inside the fabric. It's simple and flexible."
"It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"The hardware is very powerful and it is a stable solution."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."
"What I like most about Cisco UCS Manager is the ease of administration. It also allows the central management of maintenance, installation, and configuration activities."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."
"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the alert and alarm monitoring."
"The implementation process is very straightforward."
"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"I found it a bit of a challenge to get training on UCSM. I've been trying to get that for some time now. I feel like I have to figure it out a lot of things myself. For years I've to log calls with support whenever I've got challenges that I cannot resolve. If I had some training or more manuals, I'd be better able to handle more things on my own."
"The automation within the solution needs to be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies."
"What's lacking in Cisco UCS Manager is the performance dashboard. If a blade has any performance issues, you should be able to create a dashboard on Cisco UCS Manager. Currently, this feature isn't present."
"The installation and upgrade sytems need to be improved."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"The performance reporting could be improved."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."
"Improvement is needed as per customer requirements."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 101 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Datadog and Moogsoft, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Zabbix report.
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