PRTG vs alternative help
So I am using the PRTG trial(coming from Zabbix) and I have a few questions/issues for you PRTG users out there.
(1). XML Advanced EXE/Script Sensors only run on the local/remote probe and therefore running scripts like powershell requires a lot of "invoke-command". I absolutely hate this. In zabbix is it super simple.
(2). I can only get integer results. Sure this works well for graphs but there are some times when I would like to get text results so that I can run triggers on them.
These are my only two cons that I have right now. How do you guys work with/around this? Do you find that its worth paying for PRTG over Zabbix, Nagios, etc?
Posted Jul 14, 2016, 6:06 PM UTC · edited
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If you're demoing PRTG you should check out NetCrunch as well. Similar price point with much more scalability and flexibility. We've got a powerful automation framework for running scripts, restarting services, rebooting machines, etc and we've recently added text parsing expressions for number 2 ;)
Does NetCrunch do per-sensor licensing? All I've ever seen is per-node. I like what I see from NetCrunch, but the licensing doesn't work out for us
Just node. What's the use-case that sensor based is preferred? We do competitive price-matching, so whatever sensor-based model you have we can (likely) do a price match.
We have 26 locations, some of which have a single ping sensor on a few machines just to verify up/down status. Right now we have 199 devices being monitored with 356 total sensors, paying for the 500 sensor license
Ah if it's just ping, then that makes sense. If you are interested in giving NetCrunch a go, we do have that cross-grade offer, but our 300-node license starts at $4,395, which will be quite a bit more than the ~$1500 i think for the 500? With even lower renewals.
This looks like a PRTG fork. I will check it out.
Two completely different animals :) Let me know if there's anything I can help with if you don't want to use the official channels. 4sysops has a recent review with pricing.