We are in the process of migrating most of our Micro Focus SiteScope fleet to Nagios though the two solutions are a little different and they're not directly comparable. There's a lot more work in Nagios in terms of getting monitoring started up. For example, we have to understand the plugins and the number of cases, and we might have to do some kind of work such as going in and writing our plugins and scripts for Nagios to do what it needs to do, but as far as getting a Nagios implementation up and running, it's real simple. We could have a server built and configured within one or two hours, and that's from start to finish. A limitation is that Nagios currently only runs on Unix platforms, so we can't run on Windows, while Micro Focus SiteScope can run on either of the two platforms.

We also looked at BMC, and IBM. We chose HP because of the pure requirements and matching functionality with the product. I think the key reason why we chose HP is that the solution gives you a tool-set to monitor the technology vs. other products that only gives you a very specific solution that you can only use to monitor one particular technology.

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As far as agentless monitoring goes, we did paper based reviews of other products, but never PoCs. SiteScope was chosen as we required a supported solution, and obtained entitlements and discounts due to our relationship with HP.

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