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Lenovo XClarity Controller

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Lenovo XClarity Controller vs. ScienceLogic
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Lenovo XClarity Controller and ScienceLogic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Featured Review
Leandro-Coelho
Quick scaling, easy to use, and useful mobile management
Sreekta Mohapatra
Granular discovery, good integration, with responsive and available support
As I previously stated, as an example, ScienceLogic can help you save money. It is not necessary to monitor your environment with multiple tools... Read more →
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"The most valuable feature of Lenovo XClarity is the ease of use because of the interface browser that is highly compatible and it has mobile web management.""The product's most valuable feature is its ability to provide insights into server status and alerts."

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"The solution provides good infra-monitoring features.""The best feature is the highly flexible graphs.""The most valuable features of ScienceLogic are AI and machine learning.""Its ITSM and EMS combination is really amazing. There is no need to purchase two products, one for ITSM and a second for EMS/NMS.""Dynamic Component Mapping is key and unique.""Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server.""I'm satisfied with ScienceLogicfor for what they can offer today because they can offer both serverless connectivity and agent connectivity.""Science Logic provides distributed and all-in-one concept in monitoring, you can easily customize the features in this product."

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Cons
"Lenovo XClarity can improve the dashboard integration. For example, graphs could be better. Additionally, more integration with other vendors is needed. For example, VMware has integration with a lot of vendors.""They could enable notifications on emails and phones regarding control panel information."

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"ScienceLogic should provide detailed documents to customer as the current documents are not sufficient.""They need a little more self-service.""There are often bugs in new releases.""Addressing duplicate IPs: There is the ability to edit the DB and fix this, but adding some logic to understand them would be a plus.""They should improve database issues in HA and Failover mode, and provide documentation for all users , even if they are not customers.""The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required.""I would like to see out-of-the-box standard dashboards for common services.""One important area we feel could be improved is the UI. It takes a lot of clicks to do very simple tasks."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
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  • "Pricing between the two is quiet large therefore you can save some money if you don't require to collect all info on each device."
  • "Decide what you want to monitor and only monitor those items. Absorb other elements as you grow."
  • "Plan for adding more to it. Once you see EM7 in action, you will want to keep adding systems to monitor."
  • "It comes with the OS built in, so no need to purchase an OS license or DB license."
  • "Its price could be lower, but for what you pay, you got a lot of value from its features and functionalities. Customers always want a discount or a cheaper solution."
  • "The pricing model for ScienceLogic could improve."
  • "The solution is license-based. It's between $8 and $15, depending on what you need from the product."
  • "I'm not the best person to discuss pricing, but what I do know is that it's a use-and-go structure. You use this much storage and pay this much for it. That's how it is. Every time, we continue to add a large amount of data to the environment."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Lenovo XClarity Controller?
    Top Answer:The product's most valuable feature is its ability to provide insights into server status and alerts.
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    What needs improvement with Lenovo XClarity Controller?
    Top Answer:They could enable notifications on emails and phones regarding control panel information.
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    What is your primary use case for Lenovo XClarity Controller?
    Top Answer:We use Lenovo XClarity Controller for monitoring applications, contributing to delivering expected results to clients. In hardware management tasks, the focus is maintaining current firmware versions… more »
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    What do you like most about ScienceLogic?
    Top Answer:The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ScienceLogic?
    Top Answer:My company has an enterprise-level contract with ScienceLogic, so it is available to my organization at a good price.
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    What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?
    Top Answer:The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required. The tool is more or less good. The tool needs to improve its APM capabilities.
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    Ranking
    15th
    out of 42 in Server Monitoring
    Views
    1,614
    Comparisons
    1,399
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    366
    Rating
    9.0
    6th
    out of 42 in Server Monitoring
    Views
    1,012
    Comparisons
    725
    Reviews
    11
    Average Words per Review
    978
    Rating
    7.8
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    XClarity Controller, Lenovo XCC
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    ScienceLogic
    Overview

    Lenovo ThinkSystem servers contain an integrated service processor, XClarity Controller (XCC), which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and alerting functions. This document summarizes the features of XCC and the upgrades available to ThinkSystem servers.

    ScienceLogic is a hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring tool that is designed to help organizations digitally transform their companies by making the management of complex, distributed IT services easier. Using the solution’s discovery techniques, users can find everything they need in a network, gaining visibility across all vendors and technologies that are run in the cloud or data centers. In addition, the ScienceLogic solution can help users seamlessly monitor and manage cloud environments, monitor network resources, manage storage, and monitor app health and performance.

    By implementing ScienceLogic, organizations can:

    • Act on data that is shared across technologies and IT ecosystems in real time.
    • Apply multi-directional integrations to automate workflows at cloud scale.
    • View everything across cloud and distributed architectures.
    • Discover all IT components across physical, virtual, and cloud.
    • Collect, merge, and store a variety of data in a clean, normalized data lake.
    • Contextualize data through relationship mapping and machine learning (ML) for actionable insights.
    • Understand the impact of infrastructure and applications on business service health and risk.
    • Accelerate root cause analysis and execute recommended actions.

    ScienceLogic Features

    ScienceLogic has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Visibility
    • Collaboration
    • Monitor internet of things
    • Monitor key applications
    • Storage management
    • Bandwidth monitoring
    • CPU monitoring
    • Virtual machine monitoring
    • Video conference monitoring
    • IP address monitoring
    • Data migration
    • Prevent unused capacity
    • Monitor public and private cloud
    • Monitor services
    • View performance of server environment

    ScienceLogic Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing ScienceLogic. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Single console: ScienceLogic allows you to monitor the performance of services, apps, and other resources - whether they are private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud - from a single console. In addition, the solution makes it possible for you to also contextualize the resources and determine dependencies.
    • Spot unused resources: With ScienceLogic’s platform, you can spot unused resources so you can decommission them or distribute them to avoid congestion.
    • Unified view of interdependencies: ScienceLogic is capable of mapping relationships between infrastructure components and storage environments, giving users a unified view of the interdependencies. This enables users to determine the root causes of problems that come from their storage assets.
    • Easier app health and performance monitoring: ScienceLogic can help you identify components of apps that are vital to business operation, apply the best practice monitoring policies to well-known applications, and track where infrastructures are deployed.
    • Voice, video, and collaboration capabilities: ScienceLogic makes it easy for you to monitor call quality, collaboration stack, and endpoints.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the ScienceLogic solution.

    A Senior Infrastructure Architect says, “ScienceLogic can offer both serverless connectivity and agent connectivity. The stability of ScienceLogic is great.”

    A Senior Consultant at a tech services company mentions, “It is very easy to configure because we are using an agent-less version. You can very quickly implement a collector for monitoring device servers.”

    Sample Customers
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    Kellogg Company, Booz Allen, Cisco, Red Bull, Fidelus, Telstra, Comcast, CSC, Peak 10, HughesNet, Hosting, Datapipe, US Army, Equinix, Rite Aid, Carbonite, Sybase, Carpathia, AT&T, ePlus, Dimension Data, Virtustream, Boeing, Honeywell
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Media Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider42%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Transportation Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Government10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise51%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise71%
    Buyer's Guide
    Lenovo XClarity Controller vs. ScienceLogic
    March 2024
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    Lenovo XClarity Controller is ranked 15th in Server Monitoring with 2 reviews while ScienceLogic is ranked 6th in Server Monitoring with 42 reviews. Lenovo XClarity Controller is rated 9.0, while ScienceLogic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Lenovo XClarity Controller writes "Quick scaling, easy to use, and useful mobile management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ScienceLogic writes "Great integrations, power flow, and good support". Lenovo XClarity Controller is most compared with Zabbix, HPE System Management, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Huawei iBMC, whereas ScienceLogic is most compared with Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM, Datadog and ServiceNow Discovery. See our Lenovo XClarity Controller vs. ScienceLogic report.

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