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We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Nagios XI 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nagios XI Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects.""Technical support has been good so far. We haven't had any issues with them. We're satisfied with the level of service they provide our company.""The most valuable features are flexibility and management.""I can deploy something in my 50-odd servers all in one go, in parallel, whereas if I was to do that individually, it could be a nightmare.""I can quickly manage the provisioned servers.""We can configure the Cisco UCS Manager, the profiles and interactions with the resource we manage.""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 management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."

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"Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature.""It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring.""Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures.""It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure.""This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company.""Nagios XI is a simple monitoring tool with performance management.""The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system.""Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want."

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Cons
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure.""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.""Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options.""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.""Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more.""I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system.""Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly.""I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."

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"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.""I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it.""Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things.""The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect.""The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do.""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.""It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure.""The interface could be more user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "With product discounts which can be negotiated, the product is a great value."
  • "You buy the hardware and then you get Cisco UCS Manager for free."
  • "The pricing for Cisco UCS Manager is okay for its market, so it's a four out of five for me."
  • "Cisco UCS is more expensive than Dell and HP, but it is more reliable. I see less issues and it's quite stable."
  • "Cisco UCS Manager’s annual licensing fee is expensive."
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  • "The pricing is really cost efficient. The licensing is perpetual and can be renewed very easily."
  • "You can grow into the higher-priced scale as they learn how to utilize the features for Nagios XI."
  • "For the cost of the commercial product and support, and taking into account the open source characteristics of it, I believe it is difficult to a better value."
  • "We are using the free version of this solution."
  • "This solution is very expensive, at approximately $5,000 USD when I purchased it, which is why I haven't upgraded my version in several years."
  • "The licensing fees for this solution are approximately $3,000 USD per year."
  • "The pricing is high with separate licensing for the product and support."
  • "Nagios Core does not have any payment, but Nagios XI requires payment for the license."
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    Anonymous User
    I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want using these, but they require quite some expertise before you can use them. Then there are the ones that are not open source, the enterprise softwares and cost you some money, but on the other hand, they are extremely easy to set-up and learn. You can have them up and running in a matter of minutes. And then there are those which are completely cloud based. They can be free of cost or charge some money depending on the software. The good thing about these is that you don’t have to install any extra software, and it can be managed completely online but then again these have limited features and you cannot exploit them to the full extent as you can do with the open-source and to some extent the enterprise software, so I won’t suggest you to use these, because these are generally not the complete solutions and require other support software to achieve the same. Below I have listed the outstanding pros and cons of the various Network analyzers that you can look into Nagios Pros: Nagios offers an extensive set of collector plug-ins that allows users to gather performance and availability data from a broad range of operating systems, including  Windows and Netware Nagios… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good.
    Top Answer:In comparison to other solutions, it is expensive. In HP servers, for example, we have HP SIM, and in Dell DXL, there's Dell Open Manager. Cisco UCS Manager is not as familiar with upgrades… more »
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies. For example, if I am putting a maintenance policy, the… more »
    Top Answer:It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability.
    Top Answer:I don't deal with the licensing aspect of the product.
    Top Answer:The product's stability could be even better.
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    Overview
    Cisco UCS Manager helps significantly reduce management and administration expenses by automating routine tasks to increase operational agility. Customers can extend the benefits of Cisco UCS Manager globally across an enterprise to thousands of servers in multiple domains with Cisco UCS Central Software.

    Nagios XI provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components, including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Third-party add-ons provide tools for monitoring virtually all in-house and external applications, services, and systems.

    Nagios XI uses a powerful Core 4 monitoring engine that provides users with the highest levels of server monitoring performance. This high degree of performance enables nearly limitless scalability and monitoring powers.

    With Nagios XI, stakeholders can check up on their infrastructure status using the role-based web interface. Sophisticated dashboards enable access to monitoring information and third-party data. Administrators can easily set up permissions so users can only access the infrastructure they are authorized to view.

    Nagios XI Benefits and Features

    Some of the benefits and top features of using Nagios XI include:

    • Extensive IT infrastructure monitoring: Comprehensively monitor all of your organization’s infrastructure’s components. Hundreds of third-party add-ons let you monitor virtually any internal application, service, or system.

    • Proactivity: With built-in, automated trend analysis and capacity planning charts, organizations can plan infrastructure upgrades before legacy systems encounter unexpected issues. IT staff, business stakeholders, and end users are notified via email or SMS with details of the outage so they can begin handling the issue immediately.

    • Multiple integration options: Numerous available APIs allow seamless integration with in-house and third-party applications. Thousands of community-developed add-ons that extend monitoring and native alerting capabilities as well as custom interfaces are available, allowing you to customize Nagios XI to your company's needs.

    • Complete visibility: Get a single view of your entire IT operations network and business processes. The Nagios XI dashboards provide at-a-glance access to monitoring information and third-party data. Views give users quick access to the most useful information.

    • User-friendly interface: Customize the layout, design, and settings for each user’s GUI, providing clients and team members with the flexibility they need. Administrators can easily delegate control over monitoring configuration management, system settings, and more to end users and team members using the built-in web-based configuration interface. A configuration wizard guides users through the process of monitoring new devices, services, and applications without understanding complex monitoring concepts.

    • Configuration snapshots: Snapshots allow you to save and archive your most recent configurations. Later on, you can revert back to them whenever you like.

    • Advanced user management: Ensure a secure infrastructure environment by easily setting up and managing user accounts and assigning custom roles with just a few mouse clicks.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Nagios XI stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its integration options and monitoring abilities, as well as its alerting features.

    David P., a senior DevOps engineer at EML Payments Ltd, writes, “We use Nagios as a network discovery tool. We use Nagios to maintain our uptime statistics and to monitor our services. It has allowed us to be much more sophisticated in our monitoring and alerting.”

    An IT-OSS manager at a comms service provider notes, “Nagios XI has a custom API feature, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature.”

    Sample Customers
    Management Science Associates, Peak 10, Virtual Consulting Professionals
    Nagios has over one million users globally, including AOL, DHL, McAfee, MCI, MTV, Yahoo!, Universal, Toshiba, Sony, Siemens, and JPMorgan Chase.
    Top Industries
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    Comms Service Provider42%
    Consumer Goods Company8%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company33%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
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    Comms Service Provider32%
    Manufacturing Company24%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Retailer8%
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    Educational Organization47%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm5%
    Government5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise62%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise34%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise53%
    Large Enterprise35%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nagios XI
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nagios XI and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 31st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 20 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 7th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Nagios XI 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 Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, Zabbix, Datadog and HPE OneView, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Icinga and Wireshark. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nagios XI report.

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