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."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"The installation is no problem. I've installed Nagios several times."
"Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Nagios XI can improve network and hardware monitoring, these parameters should be simplified to allow usage for monitoring. Additionally, if there was automatic reporting it would be helpful."
"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
"I would like to be able to extend it to all of our data centers, whether they are in the cloud or not. It would be helpful if I could connect everywhere."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"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 initial setup should be easier to complete."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
Nagios XI is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 54 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 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 Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Nagios XI vs. SCOM report.
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