We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need."
"Nagios XI is stable."
"Nagios is a custom API manager, and we can expose custom APIs for our integration. This is a great feature."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"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."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
Nagios XI is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 54 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Nagios XI vs. SCOM report.
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