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Nagios vs System Center Essentials.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:11 am
by abacabb
I know how to use both softwares. However, the company that I am working for now wants a detailed comparison between the two (pros/cons) prior to making a decision. In terms of monitoring, is there anything that Nagios can do that SCE cannot do?
Other than having everything Microsoft, why would someone go SCE instead of nagios?
Re: Nagios vs System Center Essentials.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:28 pm
by agriffin
SCE doesn't seem to be in the same category of software as Nagios. Nagios is great for monitoring, alerting, reporting, and graphing of networked devices. I haven't used SCE, but it seems to be more about management of IT resources -- installing/configuring workstations, provisioning VMs, etc. I do see that it does monitoring as well, but I couldn't find any information at all about whether it had a plugin system or what. Nagios' big strength is that you can extend it with new functionality fairly easy, and as a result there really isn't anything it can't monitor.