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 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."
"When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and management."
"Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"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."
"We can configure the Cisco UCS Manager, the profiles and interactions with the resource we manage."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"I'm supervising all the IT departments, and Zabbix seems quite good for them. It provides graphics and information in real time. We get alerts about crashes on the system, enabling us to quickly repair issues. We can easily find devices with problems."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"I like being able to use proxy servers for different locations. The agents are pretty cool. They're easy to roll out. The standard out-of-the-box templates are also pretty easy to use. The integration with other learning products is also good. I have, in the past, used Slack, but we've integrated it with Microsoft Teams. We also use it for SMS with a service called Redcoat. It is very flexible. It does what I need it to do, and my manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything. We are nearing 4,000 hosts inside Zabbix, and we've got another 6,000 access points to add to it. We've thrown everything at it, and it has managed to keep going. I am very impressed with the tool, and I'd shake their hand very hard if I got to say the compliments to the Zabbix team. They keep improving it and doing refreshes, which is one good thing about it. There is also online information as well as books that you can purchase if you're willing to read enough. There is a lot to pick up, but it is a pretty complete solution."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."
"The installation and upgrade sytems need to be improved."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies."
"Cisco UCS is expensive compared to others. The Cisco UCS Chassis is more expensive than a standalone server, but some companies require standalone servers because of their production load and affordability. You need to pay more if you require more features on the Blade or if you need more ports on the switch."
"The automation within the solution needs to be simplified."
"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."
"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."
"Zabbix isn't very good at automation just yet."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
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, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Zabbix report.
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