Huawei eSight vs Pandora FMS comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Pandora FMS and Huawei eSight compete in network monitoring and management. Huawei eSight appears to have an edge due to its superior feature set, though Pandora FMS is more attractive for cost-efficiency.

Features: Pandora FMS provides all-in-one monitoring with effective problem resolution and unifies network management tasks. It is versatile, supports multiple platforms, and offers both agent-based and agentless monitoring, interacting with diverse applications and sending SMS alerts. Huawei eSight consolidates monitoring tasks into a single solution with strong integration for Huawei devices. With efficient dashboard features like hardware alarms, users find it integrates smoothly with existing Windows infrastructure.

Room for Improvement: Pandora FMS can be resource-heavy and complex to configure, especially on Linux. Users suggest better cloud deployment and third-party integration. Simplifying the community version's capabilities and refining user interaction is recommended. Huawei eSight could improve flexibility and automation features, as well as wireless scanning and reporting. Better documentation to support independent solution finding is also suggested.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pandora FMS offers hybrid cloud and on-premises deployment, with strong community and responsive support. However, communication is mostly online. Huawei eSight, being strictly on-premises, provides efficient support with proactive problem-solving.

Pricing and ROI: Pandora FMS offers competitive pricing with an open-source version, lowering barriers for small to medium-sized deployments, and includes comprehensive updates for cost-effectiveness. Huawei eSight's pricing varies based on competition but aligns with Huawei infrastructure, providing good value in ROI performance, though some find the cost steep.

To learn more, read our detailed Huawei eSight vs. Pandora FMS Report (Updated: October 2024).

Huawei eSight vs. Pandora FMS

October 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Huawei eSight

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

46th

Average Rating

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Management Applications (9th)

Pandora FMS

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

38th

Average Rating

9.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (47th), Server Monitoring (17th), Log Management (42nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (30th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Huawei eSight is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pandora FMS is 0.6%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Featured Reviews

Gary Strydom

Desktop Analyst at Transnet

Jun 25, 2024

Used to monitor devices and provides the hardware alarms feature

We use the solution to monitor the hardware environment of our data center. We mainly use Huawei eSight to monitor the devices. It assists in monitoring our devices in terms of utilization and monitoring. We are using the solution in the IT industry The solution's most valuable dashboard features…

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Gabriel Glusgold

Asociado/ at Infraestructura Informática

Mar 9, 2023

Personalized metrics; simplicity of data

My primary use case for Pandora is monitoring This solution has helped us improve our organization by allowing us to create a lot of metrics on several platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Unix. We then use these Pandora metrics to create an interface. We then pass the interface off to the…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I like that it supports all our Huawei devices. Unlike other network monitoring tools that monitor Huawei devices, it provides more details when it comes to monitoring or management. We can get complete details about the devices, and management is also simple."

"eSight allows me to monitor and solve any problem in the backbone and any switch in real-time."

"The solution's most valuable dashboard features include monitoring storage, resource availability, and hardware alarms."

"I like the real-time location monitor or RTLS feature. It is similar to the monitoring feature in Cisco Prime."

"The product is stable."

"The most important features are alarm management and the visualization of the health of our network devices."

"We can scale the solution."

"Huawei eSight provides businesses with monitoring capabilities of network devices across your network."

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"It provides us with proactive monitoring and is very easy to configure and maintain."

"Pandora FMS provides us with a general report (graphical) about all of the connected devices, which helps with planning new stations and tracking them."

"The most valuable features are auto-discovery and automatic detection of the network topology and network monitoring."

"Pandora's architecture is interesting. It's open so you can easily extend and enhance it. It's simpler to customize Pandora compared to other solutions. It's also scalable enough to support large environments."

"Thanks to its flexibility, I have been able to adapt the tool to our servers and find out quickly how their console works."

"What I value most about Pandora FMS is the simplicity of working with it."

"You can configure several types of architecture for high availability or load balancing."

"It is easy to create your own custom modules if you just know a little bit of scripting. If you have unique requirements, you can just make your own modules. You can even grab checks from other vendors. There are open-source checks for various things such as SMTP, etc. There is a long list of different ones from Nagios. You can just use them, and within seconds, you get yourself a check that is monitoring whatever you need. It is really flexible. I guess that's why they call it Pandora Flexible Monitoring System (FMS). It is reliable. It does the job, and it alerts. It is also surprisingly feature-rich. Our network guy just recently asked about a particular protocol to monitor the bandwidth on the network, which is not a common protocol. When I looked it up, and I found that they cover it. It is very mature for a not-so-known product."

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Cons

"The variety of license types should be made simpler as, at present, it is complex."

"This solution could be improved by offering monitoring for all devices and not only Huawei devices."

"Huawei eSight should work on the option to have the email notification working on Office 365 Exchange."

"The solution and the operating system come separately. It would be easier if we did not have to deploy anything. A bundle feature would be better."

"It is not a very flexible product."

"Something that could be improved is the lack of integration with Cisco switches. In the next release, I would like to see better reporting."

"The price could be less costly."

"It will be better if they can make the simple network topology part more presentable. It would also be better if they had API integration and integration with third-party devices."

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"I think some improvements to the Android app would be good."

"Pandora FMS is an overall great monitoring solution, but it does not have a community that is as large as Zabbix or Nagios."

"Their support is good, but it is just online communication. It would be great to be able to just call someone and talk to them instead of always writing. It works well for me because I am a decent communicator in email, but some people might find it difficult to describe in a written fashion and communicate with them that way. There is a learning curve to the interface, but once you get used to it, it is actually very powerful. They have a lot of options, but people struggle with the interface. They've improved it though, and it is getting better. They need to keep improving the learning curve to help buy-in. I'm the guy that manages it, so I'm comfortable with it. They can refine the upgrade agents to be easier. They can also do more refinement in end-user usability because not everyone is strong technically, and people who aren't strong technically might be averse to the product, even though it has come a long way. It has a complete GUI and everything."

"An update to the Android app would be appreciated."

"It would be useful if Pandora FMS included an ISO image (or «software appliance») for each big company that leases virtual private machines (VPS), just like in AWS."

"Pandora FMS is relatively new, and the interface with the older version crashes at times. We have several different operating systems, such as Linux and Windows, and Pandora does not run as well in these."

"I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control."

"We would like the real-time monitoring of an interface to be improved within this solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is very expensive."

"Pricing depends on the competition. If your competitor is like Cisco, then Huawei is much more competitive when it comes to pricing."

"Its pricing is better than any other Huawei product. Some products are cheaper in Huawei, and some products are cheaper in Cisco. Cisco has more benefits and options than Huawei if you consider different network environments."

"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."

"The pricing for Huawei eSight is reasonable, especially with the base license and incremental licenses for additional devices. However, the variety of license types can be a bit complex. We used to sell eSight but switched to another solution, so we're not actively trading it anymore."

"I would rate this solution a nine out of ten for pricing. The pricing depends on which features you use and can become expensive."

"You get the license and it includes updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of modules."

"Growing the solution or migrating to the Enterprise version is easy, and various plans are available."

"In terms of money, the Enterprise version is the cheapest that I have found after a market study."

"Pandora FMS is easy to implement and the pricing of licenses is competitive."

"They are very competitive on the pricing side. That's one reason why my manager keeps using it."

"The open-source version offers 100% functionality and the hardware requirements for a solution like this one are very modest."

"The Open Source Community Edition is great to just explore the software, or use it on medium-sized infrastructures."

"You have to pay for the number of agents and models that you are monitoring. I would rate the cost at three with one being the most expensive and five being the cheapest."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

22%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Educational Organization

11%

Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Huawei eSight?

We use Huawei eSight to monitor devices like Wi-Fi controllers, LAN switches, and routers.

What needs improvement with Huawei eSight?

Huawei eSight should work on the option to have the email notification working on Office 365 Exchange.

What is your primary use case for Huawei eSight?

What do you like most about Pandora FMS?

Features I have found most valuable with Pandora are the personalized metrics and the simplicity of data.

What needs improvement with Pandora FMS?

I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control. In the next release, I'd like to see, when it comes to monitoring, the ...

What is your primary use case for Pandora FMS?

My primary use case for Pandora is monitoring.

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Huawei

Overview

Huawei's eSight is a unified software suite for planning, operating, and maintaining complex enterprise ICT infrastructure from global, converged networks and data centers to multimedia and video communications that includes the facilities necessary for delivering performance and IT services. eSight provides a platform that supports infrastructure and devices from third-party providers, to develop custom management applications and improves O&M efficiency.

Pandora FMS is a monitoring as a service (MaaS) solution that is ideal for companies with at least 100 or more devices. Instead of multiple, difficult-to-integrate monitoring systems, Pandora FMS is an all-in-one solution that is easy to use. The software is able to untangle complicated technology infrastructures to easily identify the root cause of issues in order to find the most efficient solution. It does so by analyzing everything in your system, from databases and applications to services and desktops, as well as communications.

Pandora FMS Features

Pandora FMS has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Application Monitoring (APM)
IoT monitoring
Log collection
Inventory
Issue management / ITSM
Mainframe monitoring
Network monitoring
Remote control
Synthetic monitoring
Service oriented monitoring
Server monitoring
User experience monitoring
Virtualization & cloud

Pandora FMS Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Pandora FMS. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Comprehensive overview: Pandora FMS provides a comprehensive overview of your system to make troubleshooting easy. It also provides all the tools to monitor and analyze an extensive range of data, from traffic to connectivity.

Easy forecasting: With Pandora FMS, you can use your network diagram for forecasting solutions, which gives you the necessary info you need to perform maintenance.

Proactive solutions: Issues are proactively addressed. Pandora FMS provides alerts 24/7 so you can deal with problems before they grow even bigger. This also helps your organization eliminate any down time.

Solve future problems: Another benefit of implementing Pandora FMS is that it enables you to optimize your services to ensure that future issues are minimized. In addition, they offer around-the-clock monitoring and automated solutions. As a result, the solution enables you to operate your organization with maximum efficiency all the time, saving you money and time.

Personalized service maps: Pandora FMS allows you to create detailed, personalized service maps that can help you identify any shortcomings in your system and address them as soon as possible.

SLA and availability reports: With Pandora FMS, you receive critical alerts when SLA levels aren’t met, which also helps you understand when your applications and systems are not meeting your business goals.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Pandora FMS solution.

PeerSpot user Marc C., Systems Analyst at a university, says, "It is easy to create your own custom modules if you just know a little bit of scripting. If you have unique requirements, you can just make your own modules. You can even grab checks from other vendors. There are open-source checks for various things such as SMTP, etc. It is really flexible. It is reliable. It does the job, and it alerts. It is also surprisingly feature-rich. It is very mature for a not-so-known product."

Another reviewer, Alexandre J., comments, “What I value most about Pandora FMS is the simplicity of working with it. The speed of locating problems and to be able to solve them quickly, so that it affects our client's network infrastructure as little as possible, is very valuable.

Thanks to Pandora FMS we have everything unified in the same point and it is highly efficient.”

Sample Customers

Marina Bay, CITIC Pacific Mining

Rakuten, Prosegur, Repsol, Teléfonica, Allianz, Ottawa Hospital, Hughes