Global Operations Center Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-01-01T10:57:58Z
Jan 1, 2021
We’ve switched from Solarwinds to Centreon even before the issue occurred. It’s way cheaper and is a good alternative and very flexible to your needs. You can play with it yourself.
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ITSM SME at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Reseller
Top 10
2021-02-04T15:24:53Z
Feb 4, 2021
I have used both and have to say my experience with Connectwise was very good. Design for MSP's and when used with IT Glue and My It Process nice, accurate seamless.
The major advantage is an integrated solution which not only monitors the complete IT Infra but also provides complete visibility into the ticket lifecycle for any issues detected via the PINK-Certified InfraonDesk ITSM engine.
From a security standpoint, the tool is OWASP Certified for higher levels of protection against malicious attacks.
Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jan 16, 2021
@reviewer1140534 What experience do you have with this tool? I'm looking for NCM alternative for a medium size network (3000 network devices like routers and switches)
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
2021-01-03T21:31:40Z
Jan 3, 2021
The hackers targeted SolarWinds because SolarWinds has many customers. To minimize the risk of being hacked through one of your vendors, this suggests choosing unpopular vendors with few customers. Which is completely irrational.
Summary - this is a really hard problem and switching vendors does nothing to reduce your risk of this type of hack.
@Bernd Harzog I agree that protecting a supply chain is key in any type of manufacturing (and I include software development in that). Massive investment such as Jim suggests needs to be balanced against business, reputational and financial risk. Whilst it is wrong to "sacrifice the boat for a penny of tar" it is equally wrong to protect a penny of tar with a nuclear warhead. A balance must be made. I'm sure Solarwinds (e.g. Centreon) and others are now feeling the effects of that assessment.May I respectfully suggest that if there was some sort of midway solution whereby certain security sensitive components of proprietary software are made open source then the entire industry benefits.
Having source code available to the widest possible audience for analysis and review tends to reduce the security risk of such software. We only need to look at vast swathes of Linux and Apache projects to see the effect.
I'm not some sort of Linux evangelist, just someone who believes that "Security through obscurity" is doomed to eternal failure.
We’ve switched from Solarwinds to Centreon even before the issue occurred. It’s way cheaper and is a good alternative and very flexible to your needs. You can play with it yourself.
Thousand Eyes acquired by Cisco, interesting synergies with AppDynamics APM.
Riverbed is also a great solution very easy to install and a great dashboard.
I have used both and have to say my experience with Connectwise was very good. Design for MSP's and when used with IT Glue and My It Process nice, accurate seamless.
Please check out InfraonIMS from EverestIMS Technologies.
(https://www.everestims.com/inf...)
The major advantage is an integrated solution which not only monitors the complete IT Infra but also provides complete visibility into the ticket lifecycle for any issues detected via the PINK-Certified InfraonDesk ITSM engine.
From a security standpoint, the tool is OWASP Certified for higher levels of protection against malicious attacks.
@reviewer1140534 What experience do you have with this tool? I'm looking for NCM alternative for a medium size network (3000 network devices like routers and switches)
The hackers targeted SolarWinds because SolarWinds has many customers. To minimize the risk of being hacked through one of your vendors, this suggests choosing unpopular vendors with few customers. Which is completely irrational.
Summary - this is a really hard problem and switching vendors does nothing to reduce your risk of this type of hack.
@Bernd Harzog I agree that protecting a supply chain is key in any type of manufacturing (and I include software development in that). Massive investment such as Jim suggests needs to be balanced against business, reputational and financial risk. Whilst it is wrong to "sacrifice the boat for a penny of tar" it is equally wrong to protect a penny of tar with a nuclear warhead. A balance must be made. I'm sure Solarwinds (e.g. Centreon) and others are now feeling the effects of that assessment.May I respectfully suggest that if there was some sort of midway solution whereby certain security sensitive components of proprietary software are made open source then the entire industry benefits.
Having source code available to the widest possible audience for analysis and review tends to reduce the security risk of such software. We only need to look at vast swathes of Linux and Apache projects to see the effect.
I'm not some sort of Linux evangelist, just someone who believes that "Security through obscurity" is doomed to eternal failure.
IBM Netcool is a great alterative, also available as a SaaS solution from https://rufusai.com
Hi Henry,
Infosim, Stablenet is a very good alternative.
Regards,
Darryl Theron
@reviewer775476 Hi, I have extensive experience with this solution, I am one of there partners and I am setting it up as an MSP.
All you are talking about are good solutions but what do you think about Zabbix?
Simple integration with a huge base of official and used integrations; open-source and ...for free with global support services.
Any ideas for integrations?
Hi, Yes we moved from Solarwinds to MF NNMi - a good tool if it's implemented in a proper way.
@Hani Khalil : You should definitely try out Infraon IMS.
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