Cisco UCS Manager vs ITRS Geneos comparison

Cisco and ITRS are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Cisco is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.8, while ITRS is ranked #45 with an average rating of 5.0. Cisco holds a 1.3% mindshare in IM, compared to ITRS’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of ITRS users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

ITRS Geneos and Cisco UCS Manager compete in the IT management category, focusing on monitoring and infrastructure management respectively. ITRS Geneos has the upper hand in environments requiring detailed application monitoring due to its real-time capabilities and extensive plug-in support for the financial industry, while Cisco UCS Manager excels in managing hardware integrated with Cisco infrastructure.

Features: ITRS Geneos offers real-time monitoring, making it ideal for financial institutions needing low latency. It supports multiple technologies and provides a wide range of plug-ins, particularly useful in financial sectors. Its capability to automate incident management enhances its versatility. Cisco UCS Manager focuses on managing network, computing, and storage resources. It integrates well with Cisco’s broader infrastructure solutions, providing robust management for hardware resources.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest ITRS Geneos needs enhancements in historical data reporting and data visualization. Better middleware integration and a more intuitive dashboard setup could improve its functionality. Cisco UCS Manager's complexity and user-friendliness are points for improvement, along with better alerting mechanisms for performance issues. It also requires more streamlined integration with other solutions and simplified configuration and administration processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both ITRS Geneos and Cisco UCS Manager are mainly deployed on-premises, with ITRS Geneos also offering public cloud options. ITRS Geneos is known for its highly responsive technical support and customer service, often recognized as top-notch. Cisco UCS Manager receives positive feedback for customer service and support; however, its deployment and management complexity could be challenging for smaller organizations lacking technical expertise.

Pricing and ROI: ITRS Geneos is viewed as expensive, but users justify the cost due to its extensive monitoring capabilities that reduce incident frequency. It provides high ROI by improving system stability and aiding compliance in financial sectors. Cisco UCS Manager is also seen as expensive; it offers good value when considering hardware integration and reliability compared to other vendors. However, its licensing methods may lead to higher costs, particularly for larger deployments.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Manager

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

18th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

45th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (34th), Network Monitoring Software (64th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Manager is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 0.9%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cisco UCS Manager	1.3%
ITRS Geneos	0.9%
Other	97.8%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Rob-Croxford

Consultant at rcnss

A market leader with an enhanced user interface for seamless experience

There is room for improvement in terms of cost and complexity to set up. It doesn't work straight out of the UCS, so someone who knows what they're doing is needed immediately, and it can be quite confusing. Some settings are still fairly well hidden, even the basic ones. Companies don't really understand how long it takes to set up. Also, when changes are pushed, it can take their phone line off the system for twenty minutes to half an hour. Out-of-the-box functionality is an issue, too. I know that my company is different, however, the basics are always the same. You do your tap lines, zip lines, and stuff like that, then you get your internal phone line system. That can all be automated and scripted, and it's probably part of the automation process. However, I haven't really seen it.

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reviewer2127225

Monitoring Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Does real-time monitoring, prevents failures, and has a reasonable price

Their cloud monitoring solution needs to be improved. I have already given them the feedback that it's not capable of meeting the latest technology needs. It's built like proprietary software. I can't expose the data to ITRS, and similarly, ITRS can't expose the data to the outside world. They have created a boundary. It's a bit binding solution. In the modern world, people like to be able to expose the data to do whatever they want. They can query the data, send it, or pull it. ITRS needs to provide more in terms of the API offering. They have documentation, but they can improve the documentation and provide videos to show how to do monitoring configuration or deployment.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The dashboard is awesome and you can easily get all of the information that you want."

"Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it gives a GUI interface and a CLI."

"What I like most about Cisco UCS Manager is the ease of administration. It also allows the central management of maintenance, installation, and configuration activities."

"The best thing about UCSM and the UCS B-Series servers is its centralization, which means from one location we can configure storage, network and compute for all the servers that will be using it."

"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."

"Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."

"The interface is ergonomic and native. We can use UCS Manager to do all the configurations for the servers, including storage, networking, and all the other components we need inside the fabric. It's simple and flexible."

"Cisco UCS Manager is a very useful product for managing our entire ecosystem for Cisco products."

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"ITRS can define rules to alert when certain parameters that you monitor breach a threshold. Rules can be configured to fire recovery actions automatically to clear the alert"

"The biggest benefit of Geneos is the fact that we can clearly see, if we have an alert, where that alert has come from. We can see the data around that alert and anything that might be relevant is also shown. We can very easily right-click and see why we've received that alert. That's the best part about it, that you've got all the data there with the alerting."

"ITRS is significantly better than PRTG and saves us a lot of time in development."

"It's a very powerful application monitoring tool across the industry. Many free, open-source tools are available. There are also paid tools, but ITRS Geneos is a real-time application monitoring tool where the user can monitor, self-configure, and manage alerts through their console."

"One of the most valuable features of ITRS Geneos is the active time feature that helps with the trading applications that I support."

"The great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."

"Once set-up, Geneos proved to be a very powerful and versatile tool to real-time monitor our IT infrastructure and - most important for us - our critical applications and business processes."

"I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option."

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Cons

"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."

"I found it a bit of a challenge to get training on UCSM. I've been trying to get that for some time now. I feel like I have to figure it out a lot of things myself. For years I've to log calls with support whenever I've got challenges that I cannot resolve. If I had some training or more manuals, I'd be better able to handle more things on my own."

"Some settings are still fairly well hidden, even the basic ones."

"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."

"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."

"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."

"The interface and the way it is constructed is very complex. They should work to simplify it. It's quite difficult for somebody who doesn't know the product very well. Users should be able to get proficient with it faster. There's definitely room for improvement there."

"Improving functionalities similar to InterSite within UCS Manager would be beneficial."

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"There is one drawback to using lightweight data collection: we lack the feature of observability based on time series, such as historical model data. This makes it difficult to view data in ITRS. ITRS needs to improve this feature."

"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."

"Currently, it is difficult to monitor secure websites using SSL or with SSO enabled."

"A lightweight version which could host more than 100 gateways, as we can see slowness while loading all our gateways."

"I would like ITRS Geneos to develop an app, where instead of going to specific login terminals or logging into laptops or desktops to check alerts, we can have visibility in the app itself."

"I would like to see ITRS integrate its setup editor with a SVN to check-in setup XML after major changes."

"We were a little bit confused but once we found out what was needed, it was smooth."

"One area where there is room for improvement is the log file. I would like to be able to do a pre-run on the log files. When you are testing log files for regular expressions, it would be good to be able to do a quick check up front on that side of things before you release that into production."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"With product discounts which can be negotiated, the product is a great value."

"We need to take a license for each port, which amounts to a big sum."

"Cisco UCS Manager’s annual licensing fee is expensive."

"You buy the hardware and then you get Cisco UCS Manager for free."

"The pricing for Cisco UCS Manager is okay for its market, so it's a four out of five for me."

"Cisco UCS is more expensive than Dell and HP, but it is more reliable. I see less issues and it's quite stable."

"The organization is not just purchasing a license for the product, but also managing services and professional services from ITRS. Another factor is if the implementation is going to be in production, non-production, or both."

"Its price is reasonable. It isn't too expensive, and it isn't too cheap, but it also depends on a company's volume and negotiation."

"The market tools are on par with this solution, but if the solution included more features, then it would be well within the range for the cost."

"The pricing seems reasonable. We're happy enough with it."

"You will get the best price if you get a single global deal."

"ITRS Geneos is not a cheap tool. It's a moderate price for the banking industry. The reason we are not able to add the ITRS monitoring tool for the non-banking industries, and non-finance industries, is that the pricing is too high."

"Given our spend and the amount of service we have in it, the pricing is quite reasonable."

"The pricing is fairly market-related. They have been very lenient because we have been working with them for so long. An example is that we're currently migrating some of our services to AWS, and they've given us a grace period for some of the things to help with the migration and not to grow additional costs while we are migrating, but it's still on par with the market."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

67%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	18

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	39

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco UCS Manager?

When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS Manager?

My experience with the pricing of Cisco UCS Manager ( /products/cisco-ucs-manager-reviews ) is that it is reasonable. Recently, we acquired an excellent bundle with significant discounts, with offe...

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What needs improvement with Cisco UCS Manager?

For improvements, while the current graphical user interface is satisfactory, it could be further simplified for different tasks. While it has been improved from using Java to HTML, simplifying the...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ITRS Geneos?

The pricing is high. Licensing fees might be around 500$ per server monthly.

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What needs improvement with ITRS Geneos?

ITRS Geneos is a legacy system. It predicts or provides proactive measures once an issue is resolved. It doesn't offer any predictive capabilities or root cause analysis. They throw a lot of data i...

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What is your primary use case for ITRS Geneos?

ITRS offers multiple products, including upgrades for synthetic monitoring and a SaaS platform. Geneos is used for infrastructure monitoring, covering KPIs such as CPU, memory, processes, network l...

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Overview

Cisco UCS Manager helps significantly reduce management and administration expenses by automating routine tasks to increase operational agility. Customers can extend the benefits of Cisco UCS Manager globally across an enterprise to thousands of servers in multiple domains with Cisco UCS Central Software.

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ITRS Geneos is a real-time monitoring tool designed for managing increasingly complex, hybrid and interconnected IT estates.

Built with financial services and trading organisations in mind, it collects a wide range of data relating to server performance, infrastructure, trading, connectivity and applications, and analyses it to provide relevant information and alerts in real time.

Geneos can give full stack visibility across highly dynamic environments and presents all the information through a single pane of glass and its configurable and customisable dashboards provide end-to-end visibility to both technical and business users.

For more information, please visit https://www.itrsgroup.com/products/geneos

ITRS

Sample Customers

Management Science Associates, Peak 10, Virtual Consulting Professionals

ITRS Geneos is used by over 170 financial institutions, including JPMorgan, HSBC, RBS, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Clients range from investment banks to exchanges and brokers.

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