We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Nagios Core 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."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 is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good."
"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."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"It has made the life of the network operations staff more proactive in managing the resources of the infrastructure. It prevents disasters long before they can take place."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"Our customers like that Nagios Core is an open source solution. It can be customized to our customers' specific needs."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"I like the way the solution sends alerts and how it keeps on escalating them."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"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."
"The integration with other solutions could be better. I think Cisco can only integrate using Intersight. There is a second interface available as a SaaS platform, in the cloud, or on-premise. It's based on the Redfish protocol, which is standard for all the B-series servers in the market. We can integrate other solutions using API."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"The pricing can be better."
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."
"The mapping is a little hard."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"Cloud monitoring is an area for improvement because there aren't too many plugins available."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 31st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 20 reviews while Nagios Core is ranked 8th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 46 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Nagios Core is rated 8.0. 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 Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, Zabbix, Datadog and HPE OneView, whereas Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and OP5 Monitor. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nagios Core report.
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