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TB
reviewer2276034
Network Engineering and Operations at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
When management saw Opsview running and what it was doing and delivering, there was one word from them: "Wow!" Some said, "We trusted your judgment, but we were still scratching our heads as to why we would change monitoring platforms." They respected the fact that it was a team-based conversation. It wasn't us managers or directors saying, "We're gonna put this in." It was kind of grassroots, and the comments were, "Wow, this thing is a lot better than we ever thought it could be. And now we understand why the team wanted to deploy and use this instead of other tools we had."
To anyone considering implementing this solution, I would say that, if they're global, they should add additional collectors in those regions rather than having one collector in the US that's reaching out to Asia and Europe. In our case, we had three collectors: US, Asia, and Europe. That's one thing I would recommend is that you have collectors for your global footprint in that region, which will improve its speed. You're accessing it locally, not sending a packet across the pond to the US and back.
The other thing I would recommend is that they cross-train more than one person to roll it out and cross-train more than one team to use it because using it improves visibility.
I rate Opsview a nine out of ten.
View full review »I use an older version of Opsview. Opsview is deployed on-cloud in our organization.
I would recommend Opsview to other users.
Overall, I rate Opsview an eight out of ten.
LE
reviewer1898607
Partner Technical Support & Escalation Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
I am satisfied with the overall product since it works well.
My recommendation to those planning to use the solution is to ensure that they have a clear idea of what they want to achieve with it. It is important to define everything early on to ensure that all requirements are included in the request. Other than that, I don't think there are any major concerns.
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Scot Gardner
Systems Administrator at Antietam Cable Television, Inc.
As a busy sysadmin that wears many hats, it is a relief to deal with this product and the Opsview staff. I don't think there is a better commercial offering in this category, at least for our implementation.
View full review »Opsview can be used in any environment. It is operable for trials and all. It has settings suitable for enterprise environments.
Overall, I would rate it an eight. As I mentioned earlier, the graphical representation can be improved. The documentation is there, but maybe it needs a bit more streamlining. There should be a separate team to handle new integrations and support customers. A migration team should be in place beforehand to understand the client's expectations and the existing environment, ensuring a smooth migration process.
Currently, when we are migrating, we face a lot of issues that should be addressed. We have to evaluate everything one by one and provide proper notice of any potential issues that may arise during the migration. This shouldn't happen, especially since it's a paid service. It should be more proactive.
View full review »Take the opportunity to review all of your monitoring policies if you decide to migrate to this product.
View full review »As long as you have your expectations on what the system is, then it'll probably meet those expectations. But if you want it to do things that are beyond what it's designed to do, you might need to look at something else.
View full review »I would advise others to use the supported database because we've tried to fit it into one that's not on their list of recommendations and it works, but it's not as stable.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
View full review »Do it yourself. Opsview support staff, both incident support and technical liaisons are knowledgeable and responsive, but you will find the greatest utility in the long term by understanding Opsview internals and UI by doing the work yourself. The Opsview installation guides are well-written and provide trustworthy sizing information.
View full review »I've never installed Opsview Monitor or Scheduler. I believe these are standard applications that come with implementing Cerner Millennium. Many companies reserve these applications for system administrators as they are normally at a higher technical level of understanding and implementing. These tools are great for monitoring and adding new jobs by an applications analyst.
View full review »Plan your deployment options carefully. The dashboards are the real value add for this product in my opinion and enhance customer experience if done properly. Which in turn builds relationships. Most customers are not too worried that you have a 100 events in the system. They need to know and understand that their service is running and available. Look at automation opportunities to speed up deployment processes -- Puppet, Chef, etc.
View full review »It is a great product, and if you accept that you have to use MySQL as the database system you will definitely like it. If your installation will cover more than 100 hosts, you should run Opsview on bare-metal.
View full review »I think everything could have a little bit of improvement with monitoring and reporting. It needs improvements with VMware as well as in a few other avenues. On the whole, though, it's exactly what we're looking for.
View full review »While the product is not perfect, it is better than any other product I have seen or worked with. If you need geographically distributed, highly-available monitoring, this product is great. If you do anything remotely real-time, then you should want your monitoring to be highly available.
View full review »Plan carefully and use the wiki!
View full review »Get a good book so you can get exposed to all the great functionality in PostgreSQL. I would highly recommend looking at the postgresql.conf configuration settings when you are ready to go into production. In order to get a good price, I think that you need to have a commercial process in place.
View full review »Avail yourself of the limited license core version first. Try it out to ensure that it provides all the functionality you require. It’s free to download and install and gives a good flavor of the product's capability.
View full review »Be sure to use the 30-day trial and see if it meets your needs. It fit my needs, my vision, and the price was right.
View full review »Start about growing the system from the start. In other words, when we first started using the Opsview platform, we didn't think about being able to have a redundant environment for the system. We didn't think about that many hosts or that many items that we were going to monitor. My advice would be if you're about to start, think big right from the start. It will save you a lot of headaches, and not necessarily because Opsview is bad or not performing well when you try to escalate the system, no. It will definitely be easier for you to start balancing loads and creating backups and things of that nature. If you're going to start using it, go big.
View full review »Great solution.
View full review »Devise the exact templates you want to create before messing it up.
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Opsview is easy to configure and expand, but make sure you have a good plan on how you want to deploy and use Opsview (you can get a lot off information from their website, documentation site and even on IRC).
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Take the time during setup to configure all of the services and options for your devices. The new GUI is much improved.
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