We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Oracle Enterprise Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios XI is customization. We can customize based on our requirements. We can do modifications and implement a lot of scripts. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
"Nagios XI helps us monitor the bandwidth of the internet connection, HTTP, DNS, active directory services, and exchange data availability. We have multiple servers to monitor databases, availability of servers, and ping."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need."
"The product gives us as much control as we can have by providing a complete picture of the whole set of Oracle products."
"It's easy to implement as it's made by Oracle for Oracle."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager is a scalable solution."
"I mostly use the top events, and look at how the execution is happening on the database; and monitoring the cluster level rates. I even look at the execution plan."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager was straightforward."
"The 13cR2 updates to the OEM family, strongly integrate Cloud (off-site, hybrid and on-premise) services providing a seamless way to see all of your resources regardless of where they are deployed."
"We use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a tool to monitor Oracle products."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."
"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."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"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."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"I feel more dashboards can be added, especially those useful to higher levels of IT management."
"The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager six out of 10 for affordability. It's expensive."
"Better mobile access would be useful."
"Reporting and statistical charting is largely still left up the end-user to develop custom solutions."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java."
"Technical support could be faster."
Nagios XI is ranked 5th in Server Monitoring with 54 reviews while Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 4th in Server Monitoring with 122 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Microsoft Configuration Manager. See our Nagios XI vs. Oracle Enterprise Manager report.
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