We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Oracle Enterprise Manager 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."It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"Though I downplayed the administrative NCC GUI, this is by far the strongest aspect of the Nagios XI product."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"You want to monitor a specific metric that nobody else has? You can do it even with the most basic of scripting skills, and you can always share it with the vast community of Nagios Exchange."
"I mostly use the top events, and look at how the execution is happening on the database; and monitoring the cluster level rates. I even look at the execution plan."
"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager eight out of 10 for stability."
"We use it extensively for performance tuning testing, monitoring, and configuration."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager was straightforward."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager triggers critical alerts."
"It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment."
"I have found the uptime of all of our systems to be most valuable with this solution. This is important because we need to guarantee specific uptime and preventive maintenance. We need to know upfront if there are going to be any issues on the database so we can proactively solve those."
"I have found the singular GUI feature very helpful. Fewer DBA resources can be allocated with Toad licenses."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The PNP4Nagios plugin not working easily with XI is an issue for me, because some open source monitoring plugins do not work out of the box. But in the end, you learn to live with it."
"The product must improve its support team."
"My opinion is that this solution needs to improve consolidation. That is what our business needs the most right now."
"Improving the integration speed would be beneficial, as the current Java-based system can sometimes result in slow responses."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I feel more dashboards can be added, especially those useful to higher levels of IT management."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The user interface is not very interactive. It needs improvement."
"In my experience, the monitoring could be improved."
Nagios XI is ranked 5th in Server Monitoring with 54 reviews while Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 4th in Server Monitoring with 123 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4. 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 Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and New Relic. See our Nagios XI vs. Oracle Enterprise Manager report.
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