Zabbix is a comprehensive monitoring solution that is widely used across various industries. Its primary use case is for monitoring infrastructure, including physical, virtual, and network aspects.
Zabbix helps organizations by providing valuable metrics for preventive maintenance and capacity planning, proactive monitoring and alerting, monitoring a wide range of hardware equipment, optimizing work processes, improving customer experiences, enabling remote appointments with visual communication, and providing an overview of bandwidth consumption.
With Zabbix, organizations can conveniently monitor network metrics in one place, saving time and improving efficiency.
It’s free of cost.
It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs.
It’s free of cost.
It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs.
Cisco ISE is an all-in-one solution that streamlines security policy management and reduces operating costs. Cisco ISE delivers visibility and access control over users and devices across wired, wireless, and VPN connections.
There are three levels of pricing: basic, plus, and apex. Basic satisfied our needs.
If you go directly with Cisco for the implementation it's very, very expensive.
There are three levels of pricing: basic, plus, and apex. Basic satisfied our needs.
If you go directly with Cisco for the implementation it's very, very expensive.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a powerful network automation solution that allows organizations to handle every aspect of their application launch process within a single product. It enables users to share their automations so that teams within an organization can collaborate on various projects with ease. Ansible Automation Platform is designed to be used by all employees involved in the network automation process.
The cost is high, but it still works well.
We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat.
The cost is high, but it still works well.
We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat.
Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is a comprehensive network analytics solution that provides organizations with valuable insights into their network performance and user experience. The primary use case of this product is to enable IT teams to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their network infrastructure.
The most valuable functionality of Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is its AI-driven insights and recommendations. Leveraging machine learning algorithms, it analyzes vast amounts of network data to identify anomalies, predict potential issues, and suggest remediation actions. This proactive approach helps organizations minimize network downtime, improve user experience, and optimize network performance.
By providing real-time visibility into network performance, Juniper Mist Premium Analytics helps organizations quickly identify and resolve network issues. It offers detailed analytics on network traffic, application performance, and user behavior, allowing IT teams to pinpoint the root cause of problems and take immediate action. This not only reduces troubleshooting time but also enhances overall network reliability.
Furthermore, Juniper Mist Premium Analytics enables organizations to optimize their network infrastructure. It provides insights into network capacity utilization, application usage patterns, and user behavior, allowing IT teams to make informed decisions about network design, resource allocation, and capacity planning. This helps organizations to ensure that their network is efficiently utilized and can support the growing demands of their users.
The solution is expensive.
The solution is expensive.
SolarWinds NPM is a network monitoring solution that enables you to detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues and outages quickly and efficiently. The solution is a powerful tool that can help you increase service levels, reduce downtime with multi vendor network monitoring, simplify the management of complex network devices, improve operational efficiency, and much more.
Excluding the costs of running VMs and physical blade servers, our licensing costs run around US$200,000/year for over 60 polling engines.
I think that the cost has risen, but the functionality and versatility is way above other products.
Excluding the costs of running VMs and physical blade servers, our licensing costs run around US$200,000/year for over 60 polling engines.
I think that the cost has risen, but the functionality and versatility is way above other products.
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.
Licenses are very expensive, so I would like to see cheaper licensing.
If you're looking for a cost effective software I’d suggest this product.
Licenses are very expensive, so I would like to see cheaper licensing.
If you're looking for a cost effective software I’d suggest this product.
VMware NSX is a comprehensive network virtualization and security solution designed to enhance network security, enable micro-segmentation, streamline network management in virtualized environments, and automate network operations. It allows users to create secure zones within data centers, control application traffic, and ensure the isolation of critical workloads.
The platform's robust network virtualization capabilities significantly improve IT infrastructure flexibility and scalability. Centralized management and automation of networking and security policies simplify complex operations and enhance efficiency. Additionally, NSX's micro-segmentation feature offers granular control over network traffic, bolstering security within the data center.
The solution also supports network functions virtualization (NFV), facilitating seamless deployment and management of network services in virtualized setups. Users report enhanced workflow management, reduced time on routine tasks, and better team collaboration, leading to improved project execution and decision-making.
Pricing and licensing could be improved as we are a government entity. Lower pricing could always help.
It has helped to save CAPEX.
Pricing and licensing could be improved as we are a government entity. Lower pricing could always help.
It has helped to save CAPEX.
Nagios XI provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components, including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Third-party add-ons provide tools for monitoring virtually all in-house and external applications, services, and systems.
You can grow into the higher-priced scale as they learn how to utilize the features for Nagios XI.
The pricing is really cost efficient. The licensing is perpetual and can be renewed very easily.
You can grow into the higher-priced scale as they learn how to utilize the features for Nagios XI.
The pricing is really cost efficient. The licensing is perpetual and can be renewed very easily.
Networks are constantly evolving due to threats, organizational growth, or new regulatory/business requirements. Traditional management products focus on mitigating company-wide threats through firewall policies, firmware updates, and keeping content security current. FortiManager offers the features to contain threats as well as providing flexibility to evolve along with your ever-changing network.
The licensing costs depend on how many devices you want to use.
In comparison with other products, the price of FortiManager is reasonable.
The licensing costs depend on how many devices you want to use.
In comparison with other products, the price of FortiManager is reasonable.
FortiCloud can help with your wireless and security challenges in a number of ways. Our solution addresses common IT difficulties including time-consuming provisioning, high investment costs, complex management, vulnerability to advanced threats, and the need to easily scale with growth.
The price is over $1,000 USD annually.
The pricing is mid-ranged, it's not very expensive but it's not the cheapest or most affordable in the market.
The price is over $1,000 USD annually.
The pricing is mid-ranged, it's not very expensive but it's not the cheapest or most affordable in the market.
Auvik is a network management software that provides real-time visibility and control over network infrastructure.
They charge for switches and some networking hardware, but everything else is free.
The billing is excellent. The way they bill it, in most environments, it's not that expensive. The billing is very cost-effective.
They charge for switches and some networking hardware, but everything else is free.
The billing is excellent. The way they bill it, in most environments, it's not that expensive. The billing is very cost-effective.
Cisco Prime products deliver next-generation management by supporting an intuitive workflow-oriented user experience and integrated lifecycle operations across Cisco architectures, technologies, and networks.
Cisco Prime is an expensive solution.
You need to get special quotes from the company for each order.
Cisco Prime is an expensive solution.
You need to get special quotes from the company for each order.
Meraki Dashboard is a comprehensive cloud-based platform that offers centralized management and control for all Meraki networking and security products. It provides a user-friendly interface, allowing administrators to easily monitor and configure their network infrastructure from anywhere. With real-time visibility, troubleshooting becomes effortless, ensuring optimal performance and minimizing downtime.
From a pricing perspective, they are still expensive.
The licensing fees are $180 USD, per AP, for three years.
From a pricing perspective, they are still expensive.
The licensing fees are $180 USD, per AP, for three years.
You have a base license for 50 devices, and then you can add more licenses as you go.
There is a license for the use of this solution and it is priced well, there is a lot of value for the money.
You have a base license for 50 devices, and then you can add more licenses as you go.
There is a license for the use of this solution and it is priced well, there is a lot of value for the money.
Quickly gain a complete view of your IT infrastructure, no matter how complex. Checkmk provides powerful monitoring of networks, servers, clouds, containers and applications. Fast. Effective.
The product is affordable.
The price of Checkmk is cheaper compared to other enterprise products.
The product is affordable.
The price of Checkmk is cheaper compared to other enterprise products.
DX Spectrum is a complete event and fault management system for network operations teams. The tool provides powerful capabilities for managing your dynamic, complex IT infrastructure, which includes physical, virtual, and cloud environments.The technology allows you to manage and optimize the infrastructure and the professional services that operate on top of it. DX Spectrum is a unified platform that helps your company enhance network service levels while lowering monitoring costs.
It’s a great tool, but an expensive one. Learn how to use it properly.
In general, the license cost will be about 30% of the total TCO for this tool (hardware/support team, OS costs, and OS management).
It’s a great tool, but an expensive one. Learn how to use it properly.
In general, the license cost will be about 30% of the total TCO for this tool (hardware/support team, OS costs, and OS management).
Explore and manage your entire network infrastructure effortlessly with WhatsUp Gold's robust layer 2/3 discovery, creating a detailed interactive map from the edge to the cloud. Monitor devices, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and traffic flows across various environments. Real-time alerts ensure optimal performance, allowing you to meet or exceed SLAs. The platform offers customizable maps, dashboards, and alerts for easy network management. Quickly resolve issues with intuitive workflows, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). WhatsUp Gold's integrated log management provides easy visibility and control of device log data, allowing monitoring, filtering, searching, and alerting on syslogs or Windows logs. Archive logs to comply with regulatory requirements and preserve historical data, all through a user-friendly interface. Streamline network monitoring and issue resolution with WhatsUp Gold, making network management efficient and hassle-free.
Pricing is reasonable compared to other products.
I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees.
Pricing is reasonable compared to other products.
I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees.
ExtremeCloud is a resilient and scalable cloud-based network management solution offered by Extreme Networks as a subscription service.
Buy near the end of Q4 in order to get a deal.
There are probably cheaper solutions but we invest for stability and performance for the longer haul.
Buy near the end of Q4 in order to get a deal.
There are probably cheaper solutions but we invest for stability and performance for the longer haul.
Huawei's eSight is a unified software suite for planning, operating, and maintaining complex enterprise ICT infrastructure from global, converged networks and data centers to multimedia and video communications that includes the facilities necessary for delivering performance and IT services. eSight provides a platform that supports infrastructure and devices from third-party providers, to develop custom management applications and improves O&M efficiency.
Pricing depends on the competition. If your competitor is like Cisco, then Huawei is much more competitive when it comes to pricing.
The price is very expensive.
Pricing depends on the competition. If your competitor is like Cisco, then Huawei is much more competitive when it comes to pricing.
The price is very expensive.
Managing today’s networks with yesterday’s manual processes is no longer a viable solution. NetBrain’s network automation platform provides actionable insights into your network to help you make better and faster decisions - particularly when you’re troubleshooting, securing, and making changes to the network.
The product is expensive, but less expensive than some of the competition and worth the price.
Licensing is based on a per-device basis, which means that it can get very expensive if you have a large number of devices.
The product is expensive, but less expensive than some of the competition and worth the price.
Licensing is based on a per-device basis, which means that it can get very expensive if you have a large number of devices.
Licensing and pricing are extremely straightforward.
The cost is perfect because the devices have a lifetime warranty, and the licensing is good as well.
Licensing and pricing are extremely straightforward.
The cost is perfect because the devices have a lifetime warranty, and the licensing is good as well.
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) is a comprehensive management platform that was built from the ground up to support the Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security (FCAPS) model. It provides features and functions that are designed for comprehensive management of the network infrastructure. IMC was designed to provide the following functions:
There are licensing costs and they are quite expensive.
The price of this solution is not at all cheap, but it's reasonable compared to SolarWinds.
There are licensing costs and they are quite expensive.
The price of this solution is not at all cheap, but it's reasonable compared to SolarWinds.
The solution is very expensive.
The product is licensed with contracts that work on a yearly basis rather than a monthly model.
The solution is very expensive.
The product is licensed with contracts that work on a yearly basis rather than a monthly model.
Juniper Junos Space Network Director can support IT staff can manage their physical and virtual enterprise networks through a single pane of glass. Junos Space Network Director is a automated turnkey network management solution. Administrators can use it to visualize, analyze, and control their entire enterprise networks. In the data center, your IT staff can use the tool to manage and synchronize physical and virtual environments. In the campus, Network Director automates routine management tasks such as network provisioning and troubleshooting, dramatically improving operational efficiency and reliability. Network Director also integrates with VMware vCenter and vRealize Operations (vROps). The management tool offers sophisticated analytics for high-performance data centers, while open RESTful APIs support service orchestration integration with third-party platforms.
We would like the price to be reduced.
This product is set at a good price point.
We would like the price to be reduced.
This product is set at a good price point.
Customers are required to pay a licensing fee.
Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis.
Customers are required to pay a licensing fee.
Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis.
Juniper Mist Wired Assurance brings cloud management and Mist AI to campus fabrics. It sets a new standard for network management by moving your campus deployment toward AI-driven operations, which helps deliver better experiences to connected devices. The Juniper Mist Cloud streamlines deployment and management of your campus fabric, while Mist AI simplifies operations and improves visibility into the performance of connected devices.
The solution is priced mid-range compared to the competition.
I wasn't involved in the pricing, but I think it's quite expensive.
The solution is priced mid-range compared to the competition.
I wasn't involved in the pricing, but I think it's quite expensive.
Network automation and management software reduces network outages and downtime by automating configuration, change and compliance processes. Organizations depend on high performance across their network to keep the business running at peak efficiency but new security threats make it hard for network administrators to keep pace with the demands for new services and safeguard the health of the network.
The solution is worth the price.
The solution is more costly than the other competitors.
The solution is worth the price.
The solution is more costly than the other competitors.
Network configurations are in a constant flux and any wrong or unauthorized configuration change on live equipment can have profound effects on network security, reliability and the service provided.
NetScaler Console, formerly known as NetScaler ADM, is a centralized, web-based management solution from the Cloud Software Group for overseeing NetScaler deployments. It simplifies administration by providing a single platform to manage various NetScaler products, including physical, virtual, multi-tenant, carrier-grade, blade platforms, and gateways. Key features include deployment and configuration of new instances, real-time monitoring and troubleshooting, scalability to manage numerous instances across data centers or cloud environments, and automation of management tasks. Benefits include simplified management, improved visibility, faster troubleshooting, effective scalability, and automation of routine tasks. NetScaler Console is ideal for IT administrators and network engineers, offering cloud support for platforms like Microsoft Azure and integration with other Citrix or Cloud Software Group products. This tool helps organizations optimize application delivery infrastructure, enhance performance, and ensure smooth operation of critical applications.
The pricing could be lower.
Citrix ADM costs us approximately $5000 per month.
The pricing could be lower.
Citrix ADM costs us approximately $5000 per month.
OpenText Network Automation helps IT organizations drive efficiencies by automating time-consuming manual compliance and network configuration tasks for the complete operational lifecycle of network devices from provisioning to policy-based network configuration management, compliance policy enforcement and reporting, and security administration. OpenText Network Automation also helps increase network stability and uptime by preventing inconsistencies and misconfigurations often created by manual processes. When combined with OpenText Network Node Manager i, it delivers a unique integrated solution that delivers network fault, availability, and performance integrated with change, network configuration, compliance, and automated diagnostics that operates from a shared network topology database.
Pricing is reasonable, but if you compare it with other network Operation Management tools that are available on the market, it's expensive.
Pricing is reasonable, but if you compare it with other network Operation Management tools that are available on the market, it's expensive.
Get cohesive management and network-wide visibility with a full set of tools for converged campus networks and data centers.
With this comprehensive and powerful network management tool, you’ll benefit from a full set of components for infrastructure and device configuration, monitoring, backup, scheduling, security, alerts, quarantine, troubleshooting, downtime resolution, and overall management.
This is an open-source solution, we do not pay any money to use it.
Its price is reasonable.
This is an open-source solution, we do not pay any money to use it.
Its price is reasonable.
The Apstra Operating System (AOS) is a turn-key automation solution that dramatically simplifies the process of designing, deploying and operating data center networks. Apstra AOS provides a singular view into the relationships and interdependencies of millions of data center elements. With real continuous validation, Apstra AOS enables you to instantly pinpoint and quickly resolve issues across all infrastructure silos, regardless of vendor or hardware.
The price of the solution is competitive.
The price of the solution is competitive.
NetBox is the source of truth for everything on your network, from physical components like power systems and cabling to virtual assets like IP addresses and VLANs. Network automation and monitoring tools draw from this authoritative plan to push out configurations and monitor changes across the enterprise.
Gain visibility and control across the entire enterprise.
Efficient management of IP assets across the enterprise, removing the danger from data entry errors.
Customize and extend NetBox's functionality to fit your needs.
Extreme Management Center (formerly NetSight) provides access to web-based reporting, network analysis, troubleshooting, and helpdesk tools. Management Center includes wired/wireless dashboards, reports, end-system information and policy, interactive topology maps, application identification, web-based FlexViews, device views, and event logs. NetFlow diagnostics enable assessment of network issues and performance. Search functionality enables you to search for end-systems by MAC address, IP address, end-system name, or user name.
The support is billed on a yearly basis, and there are no additional costs.
It has a good price. There is a good relationship between the cost and the performance.
The support is billed on a yearly basis, and there are no additional costs.
It has a good price. There is a good relationship between the cost and the performance.
Automate device discovery and mapping
Build multiple maps from a single scan
Export network diagrams to Visio
Auto-detect changes to network topology
Perform multi-level network discovery
Address regulatory PCI compliance
BackBox brings powerful automation to help free people by removing complexity from network management. BackBox also creates a central backup of network device configurations with one-click recovery to help ensure high availability resilience.
Easily roll out BYOD services and control devices on your enterprise network with powerful network policy management.
Create and enforce policies across devices and apps with the ClearPass Policy Management System. ClearPass gives you total control over your enterprise network, offering a simpler way to roll out BYOD services. You’ll be able to offload routine tasks to users through guest self-registration portals and self-service employee portals. And leverage contextual data about user roles, devices, application use, location and time of day to streamline network operations across your networks and VPNs.
Its price is at par with other brands such as Cisco. There is a one-time license. A perpetual would work if they don't need any upgrades.
Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is an expensive product compared to other vendors.
Its price is at par with other brands such as Cisco. There is a one-time license. A perpetual would work if they don't need any upgrades.
Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is an expensive product compared to other vendors.
Accelerate IT transformation by enabling a more agile and simplified central management across both virtual and physical network infrastructures.
