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Micro Focus OpenView [EOL] vs Nagios XI comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Micro Focus OpenView [EOL]
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Nagios XI
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (15th), Server Monitoring (7th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (11th), Cloud Monitoring Software (21st)
 

Featured Reviews

Reviewer2892 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President of Infrastructure Management at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Provides proactivity to prevent mission-critical problems
Application logs Oracle/SQL-based systems monitoring Application log monitoring. It minimizes the duration of outages and gives specific alerts to localize the problem (log monitoring). It provides proactivity to prevent mission-critical problems. Correlation Suppression methods Management…
Emmanuel Appiah Boateng - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Simplifies setup and requires user interface enhancement
Nagios XI is easy to install, which sets it apart from other open-source solutions I've tried. Typically, setting up a monitoring system on Linux involves cloning files from GitHub, building it, and installing many dependencies, but with Nagios XI, it wasn't like that. Nagios XI simplifies our setup and reduces the time spent configuring monitoring tools.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It supports efficiency and a speedy resolution of issues."
"A single pane of glass (one GUI to monitor health of the entire enterprise) is the holy grail of enterprise monitoring and management and HP Operations excellently provides that for applications, systems and networks."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use."
"It is proactive in heading off failures that would be catastrophic to the business."
"It just makes it possible for the on-call tech to relax and wait for stuff to notify them of problems instead of having to, over the weekend, constantly sign in."
"It has a flexible, enterprise-scale monitoring system."
"Network Node Manager is good and so is Operations Manager, although they are a bit archaic now."
"It minimizes the duration of outages and gives specific alerts to localize the problem, providing proactivity to prevent mission-critical problems."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"Nagios is my favourite open source monitoring system."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful."
"The ROI is very good."
"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."
 

Cons

"The product does take considerable care and feeding especially in the later case."
"BSM/OMi is not stable. It takes time for event dashboard to refresh."
"We would like to see support for more interfaces."
"With the new Operations Manager, it’s a sexier interface but it doesn’t lend itself as much to being robust."
"The products are not plug and play even though HP has improved implementation over the years."
"It is a bit expensive, but the benefit of this product compensates for its price."
"The setup was more complex than it needed to be. It required modifications for our unique circumstances at the time."
"Customer Service: Average. I feel that HP don't always look after their clients as well as they could post-sale."
"Technical support is very good but is very expensive. It is becoming more and more expensive just like the upgrade."
"From an alerting point of view, some graphics and metrics don't work properly with Nagios XI as they do with Checkmk."
"There are stability issues if you have a large number of hosts and services."
"WebUI should be improved (visual aspect) and should incorporate non-relational databases."
"Nagios XI doesn't provide scripting. For example, if we have built up multiple IPX tunnels from a base location to a data center location and want to monitor or trigger an alert if the tunnel goes down, Nagios XI does not automatically send alerts notifying us that the tunnel is down."
"Its simple deployment but complexity comes once you have to import more plugins."
"Nagios needs to improve their incident manager. Currently, it isn't good for ITIL in my opinion."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is good to contact experts for advice about what is the best solution for your specific infrastructure and enterprise."
"The licensing fees for this solution are approximately $3,000 USD per year."
"The pricing is really cost efficient. The licensing is perpetual and can be renewed very easily."
"The pricing is high with separate licensing for the product and support."
"Nagios XI is open source."
"Licensing costs are reasonable."
"This solution is very expensive, at approximately $5,000 USD when I purchased it, which is why I haven't upgraded my version in several years."
"As it is not an agentless tool, I think it is expensive."
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Comparison Review

it_user174738 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 31, 2015
Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor
I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
11%
Retailer
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise21
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios XI?
The pricing for the Nagios XI product is good and better than other solutions. I would give it a four or five.
What needs improvement with Nagios XI?
The user interface needs improvement. Many tools have poor user interfaces, making them hard to manage and navigate.
What is your primary use case for Nagios XI?
I normally use Nagios XI for our servers. It's not particularly used for network equipment, however, I use it for monitoring our server performance, including CPU, memory, data, and services runnin...
 

Also Known As

HPE BTO, HPE Business Technology Optimization, HPE OpenView
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