PRTG Network Monitor and Cisco UCS Manager compete in the IT infrastructure management category. PRTG appears to have the upper hand as it offers rapid deployment, cost-effectiveness, and broad sensor support, whereas Cisco UCS Manager excels in server management but requires significant expertise for setup.
Features: PRTG Network Monitor provides rapid deployment, scalability, accurate monitoring with minimal disk space use, and reliable alerts. Cisco UCS Manager offers comprehensive server management capabilities, hardware flexibility, and detailed control over hardware and configurations.
Room for Improvement: PRTG could enhance dashboards, template management, and application monitoring, and reduce licensing costs. Cisco UCS Manager's user interface, integration processes, and management tasks across environments could be streamlined.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PRTG is easy to deploy and requires minimal training, although support is email-based, potentially causing delays. Cisco UCS Manager's setup is complex due to its features, demanding significant expertise.
Pricing and ROI: PRTG is cost-effective with a perpetual licensing model, suitable for small businesses. Cisco UCS Manager, although more expensive, provides valuable capabilities for server management, justifying its cost with reliability and performance benefits.
The setup process is well-documented, making it easy to deploy.
On a scale of one to ten, scalability is rated as 9.5.
They need to improve application performance monitoring, error tracing mechanisms, and log management.
Pricing is by the number of devices, not by sensor.
The pricing is affordable compared to SolarWinds.
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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