Nagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components. Multiple APIs and community-build add-ons enable integration and monitoring with in-house and third-party applications for optimized scaling.
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OpenText Operations Bridge
Score 5.0 out of 10
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OpenText Operations Bridge, formerly from Micro Focus and formerly Operations Manager i or OMi, is enterprise event and performance management software with automated discovery, monitoring, and remediation, supporting full-stack AIOps across multicloud and on- premises environments.
Nagios is simply a very configurable and rock solid monitoring engine. For these reasons I would recommend it to any IT professional in any medium to large organization where creating custom checks and programming ones custom needs into the configuration is practical. I would be more hesitant to recommend it as a first monitoring solution for a small business which is usually accompanied by a less experienced and/or more time constrained admin.
We have been able to improve the user interface and provide the best solution for the incident management and problem management process, as well as manage customer inventory according to the contract. We will meet your expectations through the application procedure and provide prompt responses that will provide you with the finest monitoring results. As a whole, this is an impressive piece of work.
The software includes several user-friendly features, such as a customized dashboard, drag-and-drop event management, and an integrated knowledge base.
If you are considering purchasing a product, keep Micro Focus Operations Bridge in mind before making a purchasing decision.
In addition, the purpose of the product is comprehensive, which means it will benefit your business in many ways.
It's built by engineers for engineers so setting it up and configuring it is relatively complicated. It could really use a simplified configuration approach, or a GUI to set it up instead of editing config files.
I'd like to see the option to have service notification settings inherited from the host setting notifications. They have to be set up separately but they are often the same, so it would be nice to have less redundancy.
We're currently looking to combine a bunch of our network montioring solutions into a single platform. Running multiple unique solutions for monitoring, data collection, compliance reporting etc has become a lot to manage.
The Nagios UI is in need of a complete overhaul. Nice graphics and trendy fonts are easy on the eyes, but the menu system is dated, the lack of built in graphing support is confusing, and the learning curve for a new user is too steep.
I haven't had to use support very often, but when I have, it has been effective in helping to accomplish our goals. Since Nagios has been very popular for a long time, there is also a very large user base from which to learn from and help you get your questions answered.
We have tested several other monitoring products which were able to monitor the basic matrix (Memory, DiskUsage, CPU%, UpTime, Running Service Status, Port 80 Up/Down). Although some offered far better UIs, they lacked the ability to monitor ANYTHING. Zabbix, being the only contender worthy of competing, is a good alternative to Nagios. We also tried Zenoss Core & OpenNMS which were good enough for non-Linux engineers to get started with. OP5 was another service-oriented monitoring solution we evaluated. Apart from Nagios, Consul is heavily used to monitor & register the micro-service systems & end-point URLs. Due to the time invested (9+years) in Nagios, we were able to get more components installed/configured easily than alternatives.
SCOM is excellent monitoring tool however it doesn't cover Event Management where as Micro Focus Operations Bridge Manager does both monitoring and Event Management
With it being a free tool, there is no cost associated with it, so it's very valuable to an organization to get something that is so great and widely used for free.
You can set up as many alerts as you want without incurring any fees.
