We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"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."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"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."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"Nagios XI is a simple monitoring tool with performance management."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
"I would like to be able to extend it to all of our data centers, whether they are in the cloud or not. It would be helpful if I could connect everywhere."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"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 solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
Nagios XI is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 54 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Nagios XI vs. SCOM report.
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