We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Pandora FMS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"Cisco UCS has different layers of security, and you can do multiple installations of your LIAMs on top of the server and Blade. You can install VMware, Windows Server, Hyper-V, etc."
"Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it gives a GUI interface and a CLI."
"The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."
"The hardware is very powerful and it is a stable solution."
"I can quickly manage the provisioned servers."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"It provides us with proactive monitoring and is very easy to configure and maintain."
"I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly."
"Features I have found most valuable with Pandora are the personalized metrics and the simplicity of data."
"Pandora FMS provides us with a general report (graphical) about all of the connected devices, which helps with planning new stations and tracking them."
"The monitoring system within this solution is very good. It is easy to use and navigate, and makes issue alarms easily viewable."
"Thanks to its flexibility, I have been able to adapt the tool to our servers and find out quickly how their console works."
"We are able to control our business with this all-in-one monitoring tool."
"This product has allowed us to identify and correct certain issues that were affecting our solution."
"The installation and upgrade sytems need to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."
"Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more."
"I sincerely believe that Pandora needs new ideas for functionality closer to advanced device security monitoring."
"We would like the real-time monitoring of an interface to be improved within this solution."
"In the future, we may have double the number of devices, and we do not want to have any issues with performance in the data display."
"I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control."
"I find that this software is resource heavy, and demands a lot of processing capacity."
"A nice feature in the next release would be an automation module to run workflow actions."
"Pandora could deliver better analytics out of the box. You can work around these limitations with the help of other tools like Grafana. The shortcomings are mostly on the graphical side. The built-in report generators are a bit limited in some areas."
"This solution requires proper training to get 100% out of it."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while Pandora FMS is ranked 25th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 22 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Pandora FMS is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pandora FMS writes "The open architecture is easy to extend and enhance". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas Pandora FMS is most compared with Zabbix, Wazuh, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and SolarWinds NPM. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Pandora FMS report.
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