While attractively simple, you can get far more value from a solution like NetCrunch, which makes autodiscovery a more seamless process. Any devices discovered become automatically monitored for uptime. There isn’t much else to describe here other than, “it works,” which for many network managers will be enough. After entering a starting IP and range, it'll start chugging along on finding your devices. That's not the case with the discovery screen, which is self explanatory. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Nagios XI Review Afterward, it’s billed at $5.00 per month per device when billed annually. Halo Manager starts out free if you are managing less than 15 devices, though this does require that you update the license every 90 days. Pricing and InstallationĪlong with its feature set, Vallum offers a nicely simple pricing scheme, too. But the somewhat cumbersome plugin architecture combined with limitations in reporting and alerting keep it behind our Editors' Choice winners, Progress WhatsUp Gold and Paessler PRTG.

Fortunately, it's easy to evaluate since there's a free trial available for download. Fortunately, the most standard ones are free. There are many of these available on the Halo App Store, so if your environment needs anything more than just a basic up/down, memory, and disk feedback, then you'll be bolting on one or more of these service plugins. Out of the box, Halo is, indeed, a relatively basic offering, but it's designed to work with additional microservice applications if you're looking for full functionality. However, even for those managing smaller networks, it’s essential to understand what you're getting with Halo Manager before buying. Halo is an easy-to-grasp network monitoring solution that's nicely cross-platform basically because it runs on a PHP service.

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