We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and ITRS Geneos 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."
"Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it gives a GUI interface and a CLI."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"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."
"When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time."
"I can quickly manage the provisioned servers."
"I always appreciate Geneos's stability and ease of use."
"The NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer."
"It enables us to monitor application processes, to do log-monitoring on a 24/7 basis, to do server-level monitoring - all the hardware parameters - as well as monitor connectivity across applications to the interfaces."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be configured by non-developers. It doesn't require development expertise to configure it."
"I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option."
"One of the most valuable features of ITRS Geneos is the active time feature that helps with the trading applications that I support."
"One of the best aspects of Geneos is that it has a broad scope and can cover a lot of use cases. You can write your own scripts to monitor really specific things. And the rules that you can put in place can be quite complex for the alerts."
"The great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."
"Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more."
"The interface and the way it is constructed is very complex. They should work to simplify it. It's quite difficult for somebody who doesn't know the product very well. Users should be able to get proficient with it faster. There's definitely room for improvement there."
"Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"The installation and upgrade sytems need to be improved."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"Mobile phone integration is probably not as rich as it could be."
"Sometimes, if there is a lot of data coming onto the servers, we have observed a little bit of slowness on the gateway servers which are doing the ITRS dashboard monitoring."
"Data visualization – real time and historical – is a weakness."
"Geneos' application monitoring could be improved a lot. Products like AppDynamics and Dynatrace provide the process thread-level monitoring, but Geneos lacks these capabilities."
"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."
"We all look at the same things - CPU, disk space, paging stats, service status with RAG status on each. That could be provided straight out, saving significant time."
"There is a part of the rules for monitoring alerts. I want to understand more about how to choose the samples and the requirements for the rules. That is the part that I want to understand better and get better training for."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 30th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 12th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 57 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Stable and resilient, but slightly more complicated to deploy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ITRS Geneos writes "The flexible dashboard sets it apart from competing tools, but it's costly and lacks scalability". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus and Datadog. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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