We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and Zabbix 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain 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."
"You can integrate all the networks into the software."
"VCNM provides a unique capability of managing the admin VDCs of Nexus boxes."
"It uses push technology, which pushes the changes to all relevant devices to ensure they are updated accordingly."
"The interface of this solution is easy to use overall."
"The product makes the management of our environment simpler."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Data Center Network Manager are consistency and the core server. The teams have had a good experience."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The tool's pricing strategy could be improved to compete more effectively in the market, especially against competitors like Huawei, Aruba, and Juniper."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"If the customer thinks about using additional solutions, Cisco should make sure they are not left out."
"The delivery Cisco Data Center Network Manager could improve if it was easier. Additionally, some feature improvement is needed."
"It's a relatively expensive product for some clients."
"It is not very easy to monitor or to browse."
"The configuration is too complicated and you have to create templates and use a lot of menus."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."
"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant and Cisco DNA Center, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. Zabbix report.
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