Nexthink - Going beyond APM, Security, and CMDB Applications for a Holistic View
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Pros
- Ease of data gathering
- Consolidation of multiple data points into one (previously, you'd have to request one thing from SCCM, one thing from JAMF, maybe something else from your Domain Controllers)
- Support. Nexthink has always provided great levels of support when needed.
Cons
- The Finder is great but to utilize the product effectively it takes some getting used to. Very 'right click' heavy.
- Learning curve. Nexthink is very boolean based in their investigations (not a knock, most products are), but since they can track things at such a siloed level it's important to know specifically how they are classifying their objects (ex, a package vs. an application vs. an .exe vs. a binary) so you can understand what findings you're getting.
- Parity on Mac and Linux products. This is improving though.
Likelihood to Recommend
While Nexthink can certainly act as a CMDB, I would not use it as such - it can support a repository but should not be the repository. It goes way beyond an APM, so if you're just looking for an APM, Nexthink does do that, but it does a lot more too.
