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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) vs. Nagios Core

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a monitoring and application performance management option, with the core datacenter and cloud-based systems monitoring.N/A

    Nagios Core

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANagios 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.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Nagios Core
    Editions & Modules
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    Single License
    Free
    Single License
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Nagios Core
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Nagios Core
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    Our organization currently uses Nagios and while it is a much cheaper alternative, you just don't get the features and capabilities that SCOM offers. Nagios seems to be limited to basic monitoring and alerts. SCOM is tailored to our TFS environment out of the box with the TFS …
    Incentivized
    Nagios Enterprises
    Chose Nagios Core
    • Cheaper and definitely easier to set up.
    • Kind of difficult to fully configure, but once Nagios is configured - you really do not need to check back if everything is still working.
    • Operations Manager needs to be monitored as well, so you need a monitoring service for the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nagios Core
    Like other open source software, there are a lot of communities to share topic/issues and there is always a plan to solve the issues and add new features.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Nagios Core
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and Nagios Core
    Feature
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    6.1
    22 Ratings
    Nagios Core
    -
    Ratings
    Application monitoring5.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities2.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console3.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools6.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications4.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding4.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring7.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery5.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)Nagios Core
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    8.5
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)