

I could not find support for QoS with Nagios, however. Solarwinds does support QoS monitoring, and can go extremely in depth in that respect. Nagios supports Sql, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Solarwinds is capable of monitoring SQL, MySql, Oracle, and more. They support SNMP, WMI, ICMP, and much more. You may also do custom mapping with Nagios.īoth are pretty comparable in this regard. As for topology, Nagios also has an auto-generated diagram option, which is quite nice. There is easy to find and use discovery features, and the mapping / topology can be auto generated (much easier than most snmp suites, which require you to build your own maps), and also built from scratch if you so desire.Nagios can do IP sweeps, but you will need to manually specify the ranges and subnet masks, and force it to scan. Solarwinds is extremely good at Automatic discovery and mapping / topology diagrams.

To install, you will need to either download and install via command line, or download and mount a virtual hard drive in VMWare, VirtualBox, or Hyper-V. It can only run on CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, meaning that some basic CLI skills will be required. Nagios is a little more complicated with regards to setup. There are also a number of add-on modules for some of the base programs, that also come at a separate cost, like the Network Traffic Analyzer add-on for the Network Performance Monitor base program. That being said, there are a number of different base programs that Solarwinds offers which each have a separate focus and price.įor example, monitoring web servers with Solarwinds will require the Server and Application Monitor program, while mapping / topology requires the purchase and install of Solarwinds’ Network Performance Monitor program. Solarwinds has a rather simple and straightforward install process.
