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25 reviewers had the following to say about Nagios XI's features:
The advance dashboard and admin dashboard designed so well and easy to configure as per each user need.
Pros
Nagios XI have an exclusive feature of bulk modification of attributes which help in to monitoring the same set on monitoring module on newly setup environment. Audit trails feature allow to scrutinize the modification or setup.
Cons
Mobile interface is newly develop and need more development, it should provide more option for audit log and add more detail for configuration rollback option.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
our large scale network and different network devices we are unable to monitor and resolve network based problems timely and devices are increase time by time. due to avoid network failure and need notifications of downtime we study and installed Nagios XI and other solution in our Infrastructure.
Pros
Open source and easy to configure easy to customized Notification/Alert in case of any failure. work on SNMP Protocol free add-ons to download and develop your customization
Cons
License cost is very high Interface is create confusing ( in Free Version ) Issue in monitoring in network throughput (bandwidth user wise ) Only monitoring tool , configuration are not allowed.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Nagios XI is a powerful server and network monitoring solution.
Pros
Nagios XI provide a complete monitoring solution for any kind of server, application, web-service or network.
Cons
Advance reporting should have some bulk server options. Monitoring of sensitive data like certificate expiry should have some simple wizards as configuring the web-service and then monitoring the certificate is a long process such need to be simplified.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
For small telecommunications companies it is very good, it allows to monitor networks simultaneously and control the statistics very well
Pros
The management of statistics was very simple.
Cons
The only problem we encountered was licensing costs and support within Venezuela, specifically placing it below its competitors, but I believe that in a country without restrictions it can be an option.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It allows me to monitor network equipment and be alert to any fall
Pros
Allows me to monitor many network devices, such as switch, router among others, even servers, The web map interface is very intuitive
Cons
It is a bit difficult to configure, but once configured it works very well, the web interface on mobile phones is very incomplete
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Nagios XI is a truly powerful system that offers enough to monitor the infrastructure and generate reports about what is being observed.
Pros
Permits a user to customize almost everything according to the organization’s needs, as well as to streamline administrative procedures for alerts, reports, updates and the whole thing related to them.
Cons
As I do not like the way the dashboards are supposed to be designed, I think it should be easier and take less time.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
All the required details for any particular alert is visible on the main screen itself.
Pros
Complete information/details about the alerts are present without needed to click on every alert for check for its details.
Cons
When bulk alerts are received, they do not arrive in sequence. thus it increases the work of taking actions on alerts
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Consistent alerting of network outages and potential server and application problems.
Pros
We introduced Nagios XI into our network a few years ago to help monitor network performance as well as for usage alerts. It has been a great tool to keep track of just about everything such as network interface traffic, volume sizes and service and process alerts.
Cons
You need to a know a little Linux and it's a little complicated at first to set up more advanced alerting. However, with a little time, you can become a pro.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Also, we can generate availability reports of servers.
Pros
The Nagios XI has simple and user friendly interface. Therefore, it's very easy to monitor our servers daily.
Cons
It needs a little bit of large screen to monitor the map.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
it has been a critical part of our organization and has never let us down.
Pros
Nagios XI is the only NMS being used in our infrastructure for monitoring LAN, WLAN, WAN, Virtual infrastructure and physical servers. it supports almost all endpoint types and monitoring protocols. it has built in templates for popular endpoints which makes it very easy to add them.
Cons
the reporting feature has limited templates and they cannot be edited.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Configuration snapshot is also helpful to clone the configuration monitoring settings.
Pros
Nagios XI is an Enterprise level monitoring tool as it helps in monitoring the service, infrastructure and network.
Cons
Once the slave nodes are 80+ it makes the Nagios XI interface slow. The Mobile interface also needs more enhancements in it.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
i can monitor my network in seconds, and i can see the status of the nodes and the clients in the map mode, and if you install nagstamon is a very solid tools for any work in network monitoring.
Pros
it is very easy to install in a server, and very intuitive when using, the interface is really fantastic, and the map mode really show you how is the structure of your network, and the status of your client and your nodes.
Cons
the interface is a little slow when you have a many clients in the network, and the search engine is very precise and does not look for possible match.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I have tried them all, and finally settled on Nagios XI to give my organization the ability to customize what is monitored and alerted on down to the most minute detail
Not only I learned something new, I was also able to impress the management with the results of this $0 product.
Pros
I implemented a free version of the application to monitor my complex network, spreadout across multiple locations.
Cons
Being a Linux newbie, it did take me some poking around, before I got it right. You really have to understand the structure of the product and Linux OS itself to get it right. Config files were confusing at first, but once I figured them out, it was a breeze to add / remove hosts.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Nice graphs and reports. Dashboard help to keep an eye on important thing that require attention.
Cons
Plugins. After version and version Nagios is still using plugins that in some case works perfectly but other is painful get they working. May a change of way to setup them would be interesting.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Pros
It allows you to monitor many network devices, such as switches, routers, servers, helping to monitor network performance and track traffic on the network interface. very easy to install on a server, the interface is very intuitive, and has a variety of customization options since Nagios is an open source software which makes it easy to add custom scripts to extend the available services.
Cons
It is a bit difficult to configure, but once configured works very well, it continues to use add-ons that in some cases work perfectly but others are painful to work, the interface is a bit slow when you have many clients on the network, and the Search is very precise and does not look for possible matches.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
It makes my life easy in case of system/network problems.
Pros
This monitoring tool is splendid to visualise the network topology to monitor.
Cons
If there is no wizard to monitor a host or service, it requires deep knowledge to configure the system
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It allows me to know at all times the status of the company's platform and know in real time when a failure occurs and where it is located to solve it in the shortest time possible is an excellent network tool
Pros
*Easy to use *It has a lot of good documentation *Has a variety of customization options *Easy configuration *Stability and scalability *Nagios is open source software * is easy to add a custom scripts to extend the services available
Cons
*It would be great if nagios could manage the network, not just monitor it *Many useful functions are disabled in the free version *It would be excellent if nagios could monitor the bandwidth used *La version enterprise es un poco costosa, pero es una excelente aplicacion
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
The best benefit is the ability to create a monitor in a GUI rather than a command line.
Pros
I really like the graphical user interface overlay on top of Nagios Core, it makes it so much easier to create monitors.
Cons
The only complaint I have with Nagios XI is not with the software but instead with the way that people do not take ownership for the monitors that they create.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
- Provides users with effective and scalable monitoring, which makes a big difference compared to other tools
Cons
- Although it belongs to a large community, sometimes it is not easy to understand the support of some scripts
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Been using this to monitor our infrastructure but now we are looking for something new
Pros
We purchased this many years ago to monitor our infrastructure and it started off well
Cons
We found this solution very difficult to set up and their support was not much help.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It's really fantastic, as soon as configure on Linux PC/server is really easy setup monitoring services and hardware
Cons
if you are not confident with Linux may be difficult ...
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I really like the monitoring capabilities per network resources and hosts, the customization we can do we it is also amazing, and it is bring the product to higher levels along with it’s east of use
Cons
I lease liked in the product is the annoying bugs which occasionally prevents from working properly, combined with lack of response from the support I can’t say it perfect.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Good product and value for money. ROI from day one.
