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    Icinga

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AIcinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.N/A

    Power Admin PA Server Monitor

    Score2 out of 10
    N/AKansas based Power Admin offers PA Server Monitor, an IT infrastructure monitoring option.N/A
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    IcingaPower Admin PA Server Monitor
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    IcingaPower Admin PA Server Monitor
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    IcingaPower Admin PA Server Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
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    10.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    User Testimonials
    IcingaPower Admin PA Server Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Icinga GmbH
    Icinga is a world-class monitoring system. It can be used for most general monitoring situations. It is not a silver bullet, however, and there are instances where domain-specific monitoring systems are necessary. However, the output from those monitoring systems can be funneled into Icinga as a central monitoring and alerting system.
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    Power Admin LLC
    Power Admin PA Server Monitor works great for our needs. We do however wish that it worked for Linux Operating Systems.
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    Pros
    Icinga GmbH
    • Wealth of community-developed plugins.
    • Stable codebase.
    • Icinga 2 supports distributed monitoring.
    • Very performant, can support tens of thousands of checks per server.
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    Power Admin LLC
    • Alerts us when a server, storage device, or network device goes offline.
    • Alerts us when a critical service running on a server stops running.
    • Alerts us if files change, are removed, or are created.
    • Alerts us if an unauthorized file type has been created on a monitored system
    • Generate up-time reports for Executives.
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    Cons
    Icinga GmbH
    • High learning curve, setting up Icinga from scratch can be a bit of a challenge starting out.
    • If the io2db process fails you UI stops updating, which can be very frustrating.
    • There is no simple mechanism for adding new hosts and services through the web UI, it's all very config-file based.
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    Power Admin LLC
    • It does have bulk settings tools to set up bulk settings for multiple devices, but to me it could be a bit easier to use. However, I ran into a snag and reached out to support and they are great.
    • It does not support Linux Operating Systems.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Icinga GmbH
    Icinga is a solid solution which does everything it promises. It is backwards compatible with most Nagios instances, making the transition very easy. Once you get the hang of installing new plugins and editing configuration files expanding its monitoring capabilities are easy.
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    Power Admin LLC
    Excellent product, easy to use, many features, and fast/excellent support.
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    Usability
    Icinga GmbH
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    Power Admin LLC
    It is an excellent product that is much easier to use than many other open source type offerings. Easy learning curve.
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    Support Rating
    Icinga GmbH
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    Power Admin LLC
    Very fast, knowledgeable, and helpful support.
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    Implementation Rating
    Icinga GmbH
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    Power Admin LLC
    Overall it is an easy install and setup and their support is very fast and helpful
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    Alternatives Considered
    Icinga GmbH
    Icinga is better than Nagios because of its nicer user interface. New Relic can monitor CPU/memory and disk usage, but it's more of a performance and application troubleshooting tool rather than monitoring
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    Power Admin LLC
    We tried some open source solutions. But, they were much more difficult to set up and maintain. PA is easy to use "out of the box". We looked at other paid solutions also, but they were cost prohibitive, since we are a small institution.
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    Return on Investment
    Icinga GmbH
    • With one check you know which applications are faulty e.g. after an upgrade. Which is big time saver
    • You easily detect outages ion the applications so that your customer ideally does not even realize there was an outage.
    • Detect if the environment does deliver the same result as in the same time as before to detect shortages.
    • Additional information when debugging. Saved us several hours where we could simply point to a database which was slow.
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    Power Admin LLC
    • It has decreased our critical services downtime, because we are able to VPN in and fix issues as soon as Power Admin alerts us of an issue. ROI has been excellent.
    • It allows us to catch issues before they become critical by alerting us on errors that show up in our Event Logs.
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