Oracle Enterprise Manager and Zabbix are IT management tools with strong functionality. While Oracle's tool is recognized for its robust features, Zabbix often leads due to its open-source nature and customizability.
Features: Oracle Enterprise Manager is known for comprehensive monitoring, task automation, and integration with Oracle products. Zabbix offers versatile monitoring, large-scale scalability, and open-source flexibility.
Room for Improvement: Oracle Enterprise Manager needs better flexibility and easier use, as users find its configuration complex. Zabbix requires more consistent documentation and user support to aid users through a steep learning curve.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Enterprise Manager often has a more complex and time-intensive deployment due to its reliance on Oracle infrastructure. Zabbix is easier to deploy with a straightforward installation. Oracle offers professional support, whereas Zabbix’s community-driven support can be unpredictable.
Pricing and ROI: Oracle Enterprise Manager has higher setup costs but provides strong ROI for Oracle ecosystem users. Zabbix has lower setup costs, as an open-source tool, offering high ROI due to flexibility and minimal licensing fees. This comes with a trade-off of requiring more customization effort and varying support levels.
When contacting My Oracle Support, I encounter first-line support initially, which is inadequate as I require more in-depth support.
I would rate Oracle Enterprise Manager's technical support at an eight.
It is so straightforward that I have never had to use the support.
When trying to connect with non-Oracle products and applications, the connection process is not very straightforward.
Zabbix has high scalability.
Zabbix is very scalable and lightweight.
I would rate its scalability ten out of ten.
We have not faced any challenges or difficulties with it.
Zabbix is very scalable and lightweight.
Zabbix is quite stable, and we haven't had any problems with Zabbix itself.
Adding AI features for automated replies or helpdesk support would improve Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Setting up the Oracle Enterprise Manager is challenging as it requires setting up a separate server.
The areas where Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve include the dashboarding, which could be made more intuitive.
The only issue I can note is that it's Linux-based, and Linux documentation is not the best.
I would rate the pricing of Oracle Enterprise Manager as very expensive, definitely deserving a 10 out of 10.
In terms of pricing, Oracle Enterprise Manager is on the premium side compared to other monitoring tools.
The licensing is based on the core.
It is literally free.
The tool allows us to monitor 24/7, configure dashboards, and quickly check the status of databases that are in critical states.
The functions and features of Oracle Enterprise Manager that I have found most valuable are its evolution from being problematic in 10g and 11g versions to becoming better and more stable.
It also has features like the AWR report, which helps analyze resource usage during specific times.
If disk usage surpasses a threshold, say 70%, I receive alerts and can take proactive action.
Zabbix has a lot of features, including monitoring, status updates, and collecting information telemetry from storages and servers as well.
Oracle Enterprise Manager is an on-premises management platform that provides a comprehensive integrated solution for managing and automating your various Oracle products, including applications, databases, middleware, hardware, and engineered systems located either in your Oracle data center or in the cloud.
With the Oracle Enterprise Manager's console, you can administer multiple databases and servers, distribute software to multiple servers and clients, monitor objects and events throughout the network, and integrate with other tools.
Key Oracle Enterprise Manager Features and Products
Reviews from Real Users
Oracle Enterprise Manager stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its central management and monitoring and its reporting capabilities
Robin C., head of Oracle Exadata Centre of Excellence at Tata Consultancy Services, writes, "The database performance monitoring features are very useful and allow us to quickly zero in on DB-related issues. Exadata storage server and Infiniband switches can be viewed from the GUI in OEM which cannot be done in other tools. The ability to deploy metric extensions makes this tool extensible for our custom monitoring also."
PeerSpot users note the effectiveness of these features. A database manager at a tech services company notes, “The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact that it is embedded with the Oracle database and Oracle's engineering system, its extra data, and analytics. They have plug-ins that are very helpful. Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product. They have a very nice graphical user interface. The monitoring is good. We can capture the SQL tune from us. With Oracle Enterprise Managers, we can see the rich performance tuning.”
Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software that provides real-time monitoring and alerting for servers, networks, applications, and services.
It offers a wide range of features including data collection, visualization, and reporting.
With its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards, Zabbix helps organizations ensure the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure.
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