We performed a comparison between Centreon and Cisco Data Center Network Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Predetermined templates allow for simple and fast service monitoring configuration."
"In addition, the flexibility, customizability, and analytics of Centreon's dashboards are all very good. The dashboards help us see the whole network map, and that is quite valuable for us. In addition, the dashboards have helped to improve our visibility and ability to proactively ensure the right data is available at the right time... The flexibility has given us the ability to add in our own monitoring metrics and that has been quite interesting and very useful for us."
"You can concentrate and orchestrate several other solutions from other vendors. You can consolidate those solutions all in one place, then maintain and monitor from that single point. This creates ease of use. It is a very powerful solution from this point of view."
"The most valuable feature is that we can manually configure everything we need. After it comes inside the interface of Centreon, you can display it. Because the interface is quite user-friendly, you can manually configure the configuration very deeply, which is very pleasant and useful because you can monitor and see everything on your service list, dashboard, or MAP. The most useful feature for me is that you can create your own plugin and monitoring query."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of servers and networks, because we have a lot of them and need to maintain control."
"For servers and for applications, it was very, very efficient."
"The most important feature is that it permits us to receive alarms if there is an incident within the infrastructure. The feature I love the most is the reporting feature, the MBI (Monitoring Business Intelligence) which permits us to send advanced reports to our customers in PDF format or in Doc format. We also deploy Centreon Map which gives our customers intuitive views of their information system."
"I find the product's scalability to be one of the most valuable features since it allows us to add unlimited devices for monitoring and to set up additional polling servers without additional license cost or downtime in our monitoring."
"Automation of the ILS."
"Monitoring system provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network."
"Fabric suite automation is a great feature."
"VCNM provides a unique capability of managing the admin VDCs of Nexus boxes."
"The product has excellent stability."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"We use the product to manage access points."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the consolidated dashboard, providing insights into parameters and overall usage of network features. It allows us to easily summarize insights through the dashboards. The solution offers automation capabilities, particularly in the context of connecting LAN sites with websites."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"This solution lacks service monitoring in the cloud."
"The problem with the reporting is you have to configure the report, and after that, you will have the same report every month, every week, every day. You have to sync it in order to have a great report."
"I would like to see a better UI, one which is more responsive."
"The most important issue is the capability to interconnect with other systems. It already exists for some of them. For example, the Stream Connector is something we use to populate data in another system. This kind of facility for connecting should exist for all products that it makes sense to have connected to a monitoring solution."
"Centreon needs to improve the granularity of the data as well as the graphical data. It would also be better to if there was improvement to the filtering/grouping system as well as the creation of views."
"The reporting has room for improvement."
"Centreon is very bad with auto-scanning. It's very monolithic software. It doesn't have microservices and it only has basic clustering. You cannot, for example, have six or seven nodes for Centreon's cloud processes."
"Improvements are needed in the area of cloud monitoring, as that's a newer feature."
"The automation feature could be improved."
"Sometimes the product gives us problems that require support."
"API lacks robustness."
"The visibility of applications is not great."
"The configuration is too complicated and you have to create templates and use a lot of menus."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"If the customer thinks about using additional solutions, Cisco should make sure they are not left out."
"In the next release, I would like to see it merged with Prime and I think that it should be more unified."
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Centreon is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 27 reviews while Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews. Centreon is rated 8.6, while Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Centreon writes "Proactive reporting guides our NOC on what needs to be fixed, saving them time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". Centreon is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios Core, Icinga and Datadog, whereas Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix and Cisco DNA Center. See our Centreon vs. Cisco Data Center Network Manager report.
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