We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails. It also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"The PNP4Nagios plugin not working easily with XI is an issue for me, because some open source monitoring plugins do not work out of the box. But in the end, you learn to live with it."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered."
"The reporting part should be made simpler. While we can obtain all the reports we need, we always have to create work-arounds to get them."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
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Nagios XI is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 54 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, AppDynamics and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Nagios XI vs. SCOM report.
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