Nmap and PRTG Network Monitor compete in network management, focusing on discovery and monitoring respectively. Nmap has the upper hand in cost-effectiveness, while PRTG Network Monitor offers more features, justifying its higher price.
Features: Nmap provides network inventory, host monitoring, and vulnerability detection. PRTG Network Monitor includes performance monitoring, alerting, and reporting with customizable sensors which accommodate large networks.
Room for Improvement: Nmap could enhance user interface options and integrate more intuitive features, expand protocol support, and focus on automation. PRTG Network Monitor might improve licensing options, reduce sensor configuration complexities, and provide a more economical option for smaller networks.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nmap is easy to deploy due to its simplicity and command-line interface, though it assumes user technical proficiency. PRTG Network Monitor requires more configuration but compensates with comprehensive customer support and user-friendly interfaces.
Pricing and ROI: Nmap's zero-cost open-source model offers high ROI for budget-sensitive projects. PRTG Network Monitor's upfront costs come with rich monitoring capabilities, delivering ROI over time for enterprises with complex systems and monitoring requirements.
Product | Market Share (%) |
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PRTG Network Monitor | 4.1% |
Nmap | 0.6% |
Other | 95.3% |
Company Size | Count |
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Small Business | 9 |
Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
Large Enterprise | 11 |
Company Size | Count |
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Small Business | 56 |
Midsize Enterprise | 18 |
Large Enterprise | 40 |
Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (Nping).
PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.
To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.
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