Symphony SummitAI, formerly the Summus IT Management Suite, is an ITSM and system monitoring offering from the company of the same name in Palo Alto.
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Zabbix
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Zabbix is an open-source network performance monitoring software. It includes prebuilt official and community-developed templates for integrating with networks, applications, and endpoints, and can automate some monitoring processes.
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Features
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Incident and problem management
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SymphonyAI IT Service Management
8.8
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8% above category average
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Organize and prioritize service tickets
8.60 Ratings
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Expert directory
8.80 Ratings
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Service restoration
8.60 Ratings
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Self-service tools
8.20 Ratings
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Subscription-based notifications
7.90 Ratings
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ITSM collaboration and documentation
9.60 Ratings
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ITSM reports and dashboards
9.90 Ratings
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ITSM asset management
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SymphonyAI IT Service Management
9.0
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9% above category average
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Configuration mangement
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Asset management dashboard
8.90 Ratings
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Policy and contract enforcement
9.80 Ratings
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Change management
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If the organization has a plan for the HelpDesk team and has active complaints, then this tool is suitable for Help Desk management. If you have many assets (more than 500), then managing those assets is a good business use case. If you have infrastructure on-premises and manage all of it, then you would need Change management.
Because we spread out in different locations, we can't always know the status of our devices. Zabbix solves this issue for us. As soon as we see an alert that the remote site is down, we can solve it right away. I can't think of a scenario where it was less appropriate for us.
Service Catalog - Configuration of Catalogs and approvals flow in the SymphonyAI IT Service Management, which helps an organization for maintaining a structured way of organizing and completing the requests with a good manner
Publishing of knowledge records - Which helps in avoiding the creation of incidents by referring the Knowledge records
Publishing of Problem records - Which is created by analyst after analyzing the repeated issue, so that user can avoid creating the repeated issue like incidents
Alerts; Zabbix allows deep customization of conditions and alerts giving you the ability to perform nearly any scripted action in a variety of scenarios
Inventory; having one place to see a list of all on-going problems and list of servers within your organization is critical
Graphs; screens or graphs showing customizable and color-coded historical usage is a necessity in any monitoring software
The overall satisfaction is great and it offers great features. By expanding to using AI feature of Symphony Summit, we look forward to automate even ticket tracking and ticket resolution. The support provided by the symphony SummitAI team is also robust compared to industry standards and the team also conducts regular reviews to find out any dissatisfaction from the clients.
It is free. It didn't cost anything to implement (other than my time and the cost incurred for it) and it is filling a badly needed gap in our IT infrastructure. Support is available if we have issues and can be done annually or paid for on a per incident basis as needed. Expansion, updates, and all other future lifecycle activities are likewise free of cost, so as long as someone is able to implement/maintain the software (and the OSS project is maintained) then I imagine the company will never leave it.
Well i find the tool quite useful for my daily network monitoring purpose. We get the alerts easily through SMS which saves us lot of our times and effort. The tool is highly customizable which i mentioned earlier which helps to create different alert criteria for different device or system.
The setup is the most time-consuming portion of using zabbix. It takes a lot of effort to shape it into a usable format and even then it can get very messy. It's not exactly intuitive and as mentioned the UI seems a bit antiquated. If I was to roll out a monitoring solution from scratch, I'd probably look for alternatives which are easier to use and maintain.
We are a mainly Windows environment, so it would be useful if we could have used Active Directory to deploy agents. As of version 4.2, Zabbix has announced a new agent MSI file to allow exactly that. Unfortunately, we didn't have that option. Also, for Linux and MAC deployments, there is no simple way to deploy that. Using remote scripts you may be able to create something, but most places will opt for either SNMP (agentless) or manual installation of agents to add to Zabbix. A way of deploying agents via discovery would go a long way to helping in the adoption of the tool.
365 Audits is used for handling Audit things which help us to provide monthly logs to auditor to track the changes and verify the things. If anything goes non-compliance, then they track with this tool and helps the organization to stop this activities and improve daily things to stop non-compliance things.
The software's I mentioned are great, but they are overpriced comparing to Zabbix while it's a free open-source application. The value its adding has high price than any other free open-source apps. the monitoring and alerts details and the friendly user interface is stacking up against any other apps in the web.
Zabbix has had a positive impact on uptime of our external facing website. Users don't always call up our Customer Service team to report that something is down - sometimes they just abandon the website all together. By having a monitoring solution that tells us when things are down before customers do, we are able to respond quickly and avoid losing visitors and ultimately sales.