We previously used SolarWinds. The biggest difference between SolarWinds and WhatsUp Gold is the cost. We couldn't afford to monitor everything we wanted to with SolarWinds. We also had some concerns after what happened with SolarWinds security-wise.

We keep WhatsUp Gold on a local, on-prem server and it seems to be better in terms of security. It's not as targeted as SolarWinds. 

We did not previously use any other solution. 

We changed from Cisco Prime due to its limitation to WhatsUp Gold.

We previously used HP OpenView and also work with CiscoWorks. We switched from HP because OpenView was too hard to manage and use.

We have a lot of monitoring experience with other tools (PRTG, Solarwinds, Cisco). It means that we don't perform low level or low-cost monitoring with WUG, but it's a part of a large vision and activity for the network monitoring of state public services (health and care, education, administration, police).

In a way, WhatsUp Gold is our previous solution. Though we are still using it, we are looking for another solution. We are working together with Fortinet to find a better solution for our business needs. We will be able to mix our Cisco and FortiGate solutions to resolve a larger issue on our network.

They could use a little effort to improve the monitoring of all our network transfers and devices as some things are not supported. Now we are looking for a solution to include monitoring our ATMs as well as monitoring our servers and other devices.

We offer PRTG Network Monitor as an alternative solution to our customers, some of whom choose this because of the lower cost.

WhatsUp was my first entry to the world of monitoring, when I was questioned to do change task at work and take over the monitoring, we were already running WhatsApp. So WhatsApp was the product of choice by them and has been ever since.

We had Kiwi as our monitoring system but we purchased WUG because of:

a) stability

b) scalability

c) support

d) its ability to perform many functions, not only monitoring.

We have worked for years with CiscoWorks. We switched because Cisco built CiscoWorks, and the product wasn't supported anymore by Cisco, at which point it was impossible to upgrade to the new versions of our server.

I have used a few of the different monitoring solutions at different companies. PA Server Monitor was one that I used and that was by Power Admin. I used to work with PRTG (by Paessler AG). It is quite a good product. Spiceworks is another one I used.  

If we are talking about a comparison between the ones I have already used and WhatsUp Gold, PRTG is a better product. It is the best one I have used out of all of them. I would be interested in moving to that instead of WhatsUp Gold.  

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