HP OpenView (Discontinued) vs. Icinga

HP OpenView (Discontinued)

HP OpenView (Discontinued)

15 Reviews and Ratings

Icinga

Icinga

21 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HP OpenView (Discontinued)	Score 4.0 out of 10	N/A	HP OpenView, later HP BTO was a system and network monitoring tool from Hewlett-Packard, and is now End of Life (EOL).	N/A
Icinga	Score 7.8 out of 10	N/A	Icinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.	N/A

Pricing

HP OpenView (Discontinued)

Icinga

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HP OpenView (Discontinued)	Icinga
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Community Pulse
	HP OpenView (Discontinued)	Icinga
Considered Both Products	HP OpenView (Discontinued) DS Deep Sengar Datacenter Operation Engineer Chose HP OpenView (Discontinued) User friendly, easy to access and more detailed info during the monitoring. Incentivized Helpful?	Icinga AZ Andre Zielinski IT-Administrator Chose Icinga PRTG was the solution that was implemented before. As Icinga is Open Source we saved the licensing fee, as we ran out of free checks. I also had knowledge in Icinga so we switched over. Nagios is inferior to Icinga in my opinion, as Icinga has the better Web UI, which I use the … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Goodhall infastructure consultant Chose Icinga Installation and initial configuration is straight forward. However the system can grow in complexity very quickly, if not managed correctly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Icinga The best of commercial products is nearly as good at cross platform monitoring as Icinga, and all of them are expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Icinga Icinga was initially a fork of Nagios. Over time, the configuration language was replaced with something more programmatic. This configuration language is one of the big sellers of this product. It allows flexible, quick configuration of large sets of hosts and services with … Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Ortiz Senior Infrastructure Engineer Chose Icinga While Icinga holds its own against old stalwarts like Nagios and Zabbix, it simply can't compete with the new generation of SaaS service/server monitoring software in terms of ease of use, feature-completeness, integration with things like Cloudwatch, CloudHealth, New Relic, … Incentivized Helpful? Jamin Becker System Administrator Chose Icinga There are two main competitors of Icinga in my opinion, Nagios, and NetFlow based monitoring solutions. Both are good, Icinga, is a more refined version of Nagios with a much better API and backwards compatibility to the platform. If you are running Nagios, you can transfer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Icinga 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. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	HP OpenView (Discontinued)	Icinga
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	HP OpenView (Discontinued)	Icinga
Likelihood to Recommend	HP Openview really helped us when we migrated our old SAP Data from IBM Platform to OpenText. Incentivized Deep Sengar Datacenter Operation Engineer Read full review	If you're running bare-metal in a datacenter and your hosts are fairly static, it's probably okay to use something like Icinga to monitor your systems. In general, I would not recommend using any monitoring software based on Nagios (Icinga is a fork of Nagios) due to the outdated concepts inherent in those systems. There are a number of good SaaS monitoring solutions which are superior and several open source projects which implement an automation-centric approach to monitoring Incentivized Gabriel Ortiz Senior Infrastructure Engineer Read full review
Pros	SAP Batch Job monitoring. File Systems Database Montioring Incentivized Deep Sengar Datacenter Operation Engineer Read full review	I think Icinga has a great search feature. I can always search for the hosts, host groups, or check names. When using just regular Nagios, I don't recall being able to do this search. The fact that I can use Active Directory or LDAP for logins is a great feature. If you are familiar with Nagios, it's very simple to combine the two products to get a polished finished product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Monitoring interface should be more user friendly. Incentivized Deep Sengar Datacenter Operation Engineer Read full review	Decluttering - the dashboard seems to get very overwhelming Segregation - would be helpful to split environments or clients into different areas Alerting Incentivized Matthew Goodhall infastructure consultant Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Jamin Becker System Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	User friendly, easy to access and more detailed info during the monitoring. Incentivized Deep Sengar Datacenter Operation Engineer Read full review	Icinga was initially a fork of Nagios. Over time, the configuration language was replaced with something more programmatic. This configuration language is one of the big sellers of this product. It allows flexible, quick configuration of large sets of hosts and services with minimal input. Comparing it to other products like WhatsUp Gold, Zenoss, Zabbix, etc., it stands out as incredibly flexible. Adding additional features to Icinga can be as simple as searching for them online. And if they don't yet exist, there is a full API available for custom extensions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Biggest support in maintaining 10,000 Linux servers. Incentivized Deep Sengar Datacenter Operation Engineer Read full review	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. Incentivized AZ Andre Zielinski IT-Administrator Read full review
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