We performed a comparison between HPE OneView and Pandora FMS 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."It is very stable. We have had no downtime nor issues in approximately a year. "
"Provides the strongest support for automation."
"I don't have to use CD-ROMs or anything like that to provision the servers."
"We could literally swap out a piece of hardware, slide one back into the chassis, and immediately - about three reboots later - it was identical. We didn't have to worry about configuring it, we didn't have to spend any time getting anything into place. It came back and it healed the environment almost immediately."
"By being able to deploy servers very quickly and rapidly, we can respond to any business requirement needed."
"Gives the business interfaces to view real-time pictures of IT business services."
"The OneView Global Dashboard is very user-friendly and it can be used for monitoring the power consumption and temperature of the data center and racks."
"Gives us one platform to monitor and access or configure all the servers or the 3PAR, etc."
"This solution has screens that are easy to understand and provide a wealth of information."
"It allows me to quickly see the status of all of my printers, switches, computers, and virtual machines to determine if any system has fallen."
"You can configure several types of architecture for high availability or load balancing."
"The most valuable features are auto-discovery and automatic detection of the network topology and network monitoring."
"The monitoring system within this solution is very good. It is easy to use and navigate, and makes issue alarms easily viewable."
"I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly."
"It is easy to create your own custom modules if you just know a little bit of scripting. If you have unique requirements, you can just make your own modules. You can even grab checks from other vendors. There are open-source checks for various things such as SMTP, etc. There is a long list of different ones from Nagios. You can just use them, and within seconds, you get yourself a check that is monitoring whatever you need. It is really flexible. I guess that's why they call it Pandora Flexible Monitoring System (FMS). It is reliable. It does the job, and it alerts. It is also surprisingly feature-rich. Our network guy just recently asked about a particular protocol to monitor the bandwidth on the network, which is not a common protocol. When I looked it up, and I found that they cover it. It is very mature for a not-so-known product."
"The network monitoring and configuration within this solution is very good."
"We've had a few issues. We just upgraded to the 3.9.0 version. We think that now that we are on that version, hopefully a lot of those things are going to go away for us."
"It would be better if we can add every HPE device to OneView, such as MSA, as well as the other servers like the DL server and ML server."
"The solution could add storage, integration services, and end-to-end support for Cisco switches or other competitor products."
"I had some minor difficulties with upgrading, but the solution still works fine."
"One thing which is missing is that you can't actually log a support call yourself."
"We've had issues, for example, with RAM."
"Sometimes the interface can be a little confusing, sometimes the error messages can be very cryptic, as far as what's actually going on."
"The network configuration part of HPE OneView needs improvement. The solution has way too many features, and there's a need for proper configuration indicators to be put in place."
"Their support is good, but it is just online communication. It would be great to be able to just call someone and talk to them instead of always writing. It works well for me because I am a decent communicator in email, but some people might find it difficult to describe in a written fashion and communicate with them that way. There is a learning curve to the interface, but once you get used to it, it is actually very powerful. They have a lot of options, but people struggle with the interface. They've improved it though, and it is getting better. They need to keep improving the learning curve to help buy-in. I'm the guy that manages it, so I'm comfortable with it. They can refine the upgrade agents to be easier. They can also do more refinement in end-user usability because not everyone is strong technically, and people who aren't strong technically might be averse to the product, even though it has come a long way. It has a complete GUI and everything."
"We would like to see improvement in the mainframe integration that this solution is capable of."
"In the future, we may have double the number of devices, and we do not want to have any issues with performance in the data display."
"Pandora FMS is relatively new, and the interface with the older version crashes at times. We have several different operating systems, such as Linux and Windows, and Pandora does not run as well in these."
"When it comes to the definition of local Software Agents for the first time in the open-source version, it can become very tedious."
"The price for Pandora FMS is expensive."
"An update to the Android app would be appreciated."
"The product lacks APIs for integration with other systems."
HPE OneView is ranked 17th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 80 reviews while Pandora FMS is ranked 26th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 22 reviews. HPE OneView is rated 8.0, while Pandora FMS is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of HPE OneView writes "Provides firmware compliance and the ability to connect to iPO". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pandora FMS writes "The open architecture is easy to extend and enhance". HPE OneView is most compared with Dell CloudIQ, Cisco Intersight, Zabbix, Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Pandora FMS is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wazuh, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios XI. See our HPE OneView vs. Pandora FMS report.
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