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We performed a comparison between Oracle SOA Suite and PRTG Network Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Question: Can PRTG be used to monitor Oracle SOA suite components or should we choose Nagios instead?
Answer: PRTG is quite basic for this type of application monitoring, it'll give you some general metrics but what you're asking for is better done with Nagios, though its architecture and the information it provides won't give you the best metrics either. In this case your safest bet would be Zabbix, although both Nagios and Zabbix will steal a lot of your time until you can tune them to the detail level you're expecting, since neither count on "professional" plugins like the one ZenOSS can give you, but of course that's gonna cost a hole in your company's wallet.
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Pros
"Enables our Product Manager to post products to different outside EC platforms with only one interface and one process.""The product provides transparency in finances.""This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA.""The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers.""The stability of the solution is the most valuable feature.""Middleware jobs developing for EC, ERP, and shipping systems become easier.""Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability.""The most valuable feature of this solution is the option to design, and the development can happen at the same time."

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"The reporting module is easy to configure.""What I've found most valuable is the custom sensor, which allows you to write scripts or code to monitor a specific metric in your environment.""The most valuable feature is the dashboard interface. It's very clean, it's very simple to use.""It has made our infrastructure more reliable.""The technical support seems to be quick, clever, and has a comprehensive knowledge base online, which is fantastic.""The initial setup was easy. We didn't have any issues with the process and everything rolled out smoothly.""It's very easy to manage when you've got time to do some work on it: things like adding devices, adding groups, adding sensor clusters, and being able to clone and move stuff around.""It is a user-friendly solution."

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Cons
"An important area that can be improved is the product's data monitoring. When we use the solution for interfacing or end-to-end data monitoring, we want to know exactly where the data is going and exactly where it is failing, or where there is an issue.""The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved.""Other solutions might be better componets such as Salesforce.""Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses.""They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times.""Its function options can be improved.""Various parts of SOA, BPEL, and so on, each have their own consoles which need to be accessed individually with different logins. It would be better from an admin perspective if all the consoles were accessible via a single login.""Another area of improvement is performance. Because with multiple solutions connecting to the SOA platform, the performance of the SOA platform can be affected in time. So, that could be one area that could be improved with the SOA."

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"The database needs improvement.""In a very few cases, customers want more detailed reports, which we cannot meet.""I would like to have a VM version that can be installed on a cloud such as Azure. We're using Azure, and we're eliminating on-premise servers. It would be helpful to have a PRTG version that can be installed on the Azure cloud.""PRTG could use reporting tools and mobile alert tools. It should be easier to diagnose and respond to problems from a mobile device on the go.""More training videos for installing and configuring this software would have been nice, especially when working with a lot of devices.""They should work on syncing the solution with Gmail.""PRTG Network Monitor could improve the price.""I would like to see Office 365 monitoring. Essentially, it doesn't do it. I assumed not at all, but apparently it does it slightly. However, due to issues with APIs, they currently don't provide full monitoring for O365."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard."
  • "It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be."
  • "This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view."
  • "Based on my knowledge, Oracle SOA Suite doesn't have user-based licensing. It has a system-based licensing model, so you pay for whole systems. Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution, so it's a four out of ten for me."
  • "The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors."
  • "The product is moderately priced."
  • "Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution."
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  • "Licenses are very expensive, so I would like to see cheaper licensing."
  • "If you're looking for a cost effective software I’d suggest this product."
  • "Sensors on free version can run out quick."
  • "The ability to use the base version with 100 free sensors is great. The cost on other packages can be very reasonable."
  • "When you buy PRTG, everything comes in one bundle. Licensing is very easy."
  • "The price was pretty good, very competitive."
  • "The pricing is not too bad. It's not massively expensive, and the ability to upscale or even downscale licenses every year is brilliant for us."
  • "On a yearly basis, I believe it's between £1,200 and £1,500."
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    Anonymous User
    I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want using these, but they require quite some expertise before you can use them. Then there are the ones that are not open source, the enterprise softwares and cost you some money, but on the other hand, they are extremely easy to set-up and learn. You can have them up and running in a matter of minutes. And then there are those which are completely cloud based. They can be free of cost or charge some money depending on the software. The good thing about these is that you don’t have to install any extra software, and it can be managed completely online but then again these have limited features and you cannot exploit them to the full extent as you can do with the open-source and to some extent the enterprise software, so I won’t suggest you to use these, because these are generally not the complete solutions and require other support software to achieve the same. Below I have listed the outstanding pros and cons of the various Network analyzers that you can look into Nagios Pros: Nagios offers an extensive set of collector plug-ins that allows users to gather performance and availability data from a broad range of operating systems, including  Windows and Netware Nagios… Read more →
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    Anonymous User
    it_user384900 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user384900 (ENTERPRISE NETWORK : Team Leader: ICT Events Monitoring at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees)
    Vendor

    I have been given a project at work to compare PRTG and observer , is the any one with that kind of information , I need to prepare the document in a weeks time for system users . can you please assist if you have any kind of information .

    thanks

    it_user155127 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user155127 (Engineer with 51-200 employees)
    Vendor

    Hi,

    I've no experience with PRTG, but you can find that on their site:
    www.paessler.com

    I used to practice some time ago Nagios, on Linux boxes with web Logic, and
    it adapted well to our needs.

    I'm no longer experimenting with supervision tools as i switched to backup and
    storage.

    Regards
    E.Boutang

    it_user70647 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user70647 (Works)
    Vendor

    PRTG is a network monitoring tool that uses SNMP protocol. You can configure weblogic server to use SNMP protocol to communicate with PRTG using agents.

    The same thing for Oracle ESB, by enabling SNMP traps in the Oracle Servcie bus.

    I think your business requirement as well as budget, will determine which
    monitoring tool you can use.

    I think all network monitoring tools, using SNMP traps, can do the job. Any SW or applications can build an SNMP traps to communicate with the monitoring tool.

    You can consult Oracle's manuals for more details.

    I hope this will be helpful.
    All the best,

    Ashraf Galal

    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful.
    Top Answer:The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved. A big challenge for Oracle SOA Suite is that you don't get too many technical resources.
    Top Answer:PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device and… more »
    Top Answer:The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.
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    Overview

    Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, standards-based software suite to build, deploy and manage integration following the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The components of the suite benefit from consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model, end-to-end security and unified metadata management. Oracle SOA Suite helps businesses lower costs by allowing maximum re-use of existing IT investments and assets, regardless of the environment (OS, application server, etc.) they run in, or the technology they were built upon. Its easy-to-use, re-use focused, unified application development tooling and end-to-end lifecycle management support further reduces development and maintenance cost and complexity.

    For more information on Oracle SOA Suite, visit Oracle.com

    PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.

    To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.

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    Oracle SOA Suite is ranked 8th in Application Infrastructure with 65 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Oracle SOA Suite is rated 8.0, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle SOA Suite writes "Easy to setup, provides good support and scalable solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Oracle SOA Suite is most compared with Mule ESB, WebLogic Suite, Apache Web Server, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and IBM BPM, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager.

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