We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and Nagios XI 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."The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to learn."
"SCCM does everything from A to Z for a Windows operating system."
"One of the standout features of SCCM is its application management capabilities. It allows us to create packages efficiently and deploy them to specific groups within our network. This streamlined process has significantly improved our software distribution workflows."
"The scalability to deploy the package."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is very scalable."
"It's helped us solve problems surrounding patching, installing, and reporting different patches, etc., on the virtual machines."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"This is a very good solution and it is simple to use, for any company."
"It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"Their compliance reporting is not accurate, and they admitted it on the phone when we had a call with them. We were trying to understand why their numbers didn't match on our compliance reports. It is not accurate and you cannot depend on the compliance reports. The numbers just don't match, and we can't figure out why. We called Microsoft and they said, "Yeah, that's a known issue." But there is no word that they're working on it."
"I would like to see more automation."
"It would be of benefit if Configuration Manager could be connected/integrated with multiple Microsoft Intune subscriptions rather than just one (the current limit)."
"The ability to integrate MDM would be great."
"The reports are too busy. They could be simpler. I'm a technician, so I don't care how pretty the reports look. They should be easy to read. I'm designing this for production folks. They need to read the reports quickly when they're patching in the middle of the night."
"The tool's deployment is difficult. Microsoft needs to improve documentation with videos."
"As far as load balancing across, they don't have that support yet, so that you can actually build multiple primaries and have it load balance across. They don't have any of that functionality yet. That would be a nice feature, to scale that way."
"The solution is a bit heavy on the sources such as RAM or CPU and the software needs to be a bit lighter."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."
"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"I would like to be able to extend it to all of our data centers, whether they are in the cloud or not. It would be helpful if I could connect everywhere."
"The product's stability could be even better."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 5th in Server Monitoring with 54 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while Nagios XI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor and Wireshark. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. Nagios XI report.
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