In this SlideShare we will see how SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor (SAM) can help you monitor applications and servers more efficiently than Nagios or any other open source software.

1. Why SolarWinds® Server and Application
Monitor™ is better than Nagios
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2. Agenda
In this SlideShare we will see how SolarWinds Server and
Application Monitor (SAM) can help you monitor applications
and servers more efficiently than Nagios or any other open
source software.
» How quick do you want to Install and start monitoring?
» How simple do you want your software to be?
» Do you want alerts or noise?
» Do you want readable reports?
» It’s all cost that matters at the end
» Less complexity more monitoring. Hop On!!
» Experience SolarWinds Server And Application Monitor for Yourself
» A hand when you need it
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3. How quick do you want to install and start
monitoring?
SolarWinds Server &
Application Monitor:
• Simple installation
with wizards Nagios:
• Administrators can • Installation and
install by themselves configuration is complex
no professional help and requires Linux
needed knowledge
• Installation & • Administrators may
configuration takes need professional
less than 2 hours and services assistance to
your ready to start get Nagios monitoring
monitoring applications
applications
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4. How simple do you want your software to be?
Module 1 Cacti for
Plugin performance
Nagios APM Oracle data
A plugin for
Module 2 UI and graphs
3rd party tool
Plugin
Java for SNMP
Module 3
Plugin
Server Stats
• One single tool to monitor all applications out-of-the-box
• Monitoring for Windows, Linux, UNIX, Hyper-V, and
VMware systems using one single tool, no plugins needed
• SAM supports multiple platforms and protocols, including
WMI, the VMware API and SNMP
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5. Do you want alerts or noise?
• With Nagios, alerts are only
triggered based on
dependencies
• SAM alerts are based on correlation
based events • Occurrence of error/alert is not
• SAM gives better insight on where the explained
errors have occurred and what triggered
the alert
• Users can set up dependencies to
suppress alerts and only respond to alerts
causing the problem
Storage
Alert Application
Error Alert
Server Fault
Alert Performance
Alert
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6. Do you want readable reports?
• SolarWinds SAM provides
aggregated reports for all
errors, faults and alerts
• SAM allows IT pros to create
simple graphs and pie
Easy reports and graphs
charts from reports
• Reports can be customized
and downloaded in multiple
formats
• Nagios does not provide
historical data
• Nagios needs special tools
and plugins like Cacti for
collecting, storing and
displaying performance data
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7. It’s all cost that matters at the end
• The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is
high for Nagios as the time spent in • SolarWinds SAM starts at $2995
configuring, writing templates can be (USD)
used productively • Plug-ins for additional application
• Nagios Core is free but professional support are not required.
support for Nagios for 1year is • On average, SolarWinds
$2,495 customers only spend less than
• Filling Nagios gaps with add-on
products like CACTI, PRISM etc. may
10% of one FTE to maintain
add to the complexity and price Server & Application Monitor
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8. Less complexity more monitoring. Hop On!!
• SAM offers monitoring guidance and
threshold recommendations for over
100 applications
• No scripting knowledge required to
monitor custom application
• SAM provides ability to expand beyond
APM by integrating with other NMS
modules such as SolarWinds NPM,
NTA IPAM and more.
Still on Nagios?
Video on SolarWinds SAM allows
GEEKS SPEAK importing Nagios Scripts.
SO HOP ON!!
ON SAM vs.
NAGIOS
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9. Experience SolarWinds Server And Application
Monitor for Yourself
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10. A Hand When You Need It
Resources
Tech Tip: How to Migrate
Nagios Scripts to Server
& Application Monitor
Whitepaper: How I
Outgrew Nagios
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Video: Introduction to Meet more than 100,000+ IT pros on
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11. Thank You!
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