![]() Zabbix also provides a range of data collectors such as temperature, fan speed, voltages, disk states, and more. Computer/Server Hardware Health: PRTG offers monitors for hard drive health, printers, blade servers, virtual arrays, cisco devices, temperature and voltage, and more.Both products provide reports on their respective features. It does not, however, have a ticketing system like PRTG, and is a more manual approach. PRTG also has a full help-desk ticketing program which can generate and assign tickets.Zabbix has the ability to measure SLA percentages being met by use of thresholds if you assign devices as children to other devices and set terms. QoS / SLA: PRTG is capable of monitoring QoS for VoIP, Cisco CBQoS, and more.Zabbix supports SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Database Monitoring: PRTG supports SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, REST, and more.Agentless protocols include ICMP, TCP, SSH and Telnet. Zabbix supports SNMP, WMI monitoring, and ICMP if you use the agent program on the remote machine. In addition, PRTG also supports SSH, packet sniffing, powershell, push message receivers, PRTG cloud monitoring, and others. Monitoring via SNMP, WMI, ICMP, etc: PRTG supports all of these.Neither have auto-generated diagrams, and claim that network maps are best created manually due to the spacing and cluttering of many devices. Mapping / Topology: Both Zabbix / PRTG support custom mapping and network diagrams.Zabbix has some agentless collection methods, but they have a much lower variety. PRTG does not require a client “agent” program installed on remote machines for data collection, whereas most features are only available on Zabbix if the agent is installed. Automatic Network Scanning: Zabbix and PRTG both support this.Zabbix is not easy to install, and has a much steeper learning curve than that of PRTG. The Zabbix server does not run on Windows, and will require either a dedicated VM / Server with a live CD, or a version of Linux, Mac OsX, the BSD OS group, or Solaris. Zabbix is also scalable, and has support for cross-site diagrams. Zabbix is also a network monitoring tool, with support for network mapping scanning. Running as an application on Windows, it provides an easy/quick install and a thorough tutorial on first launch. It is fully scalable and can be used by small businesses as well as multi-site corporations with ease. PRTG, developed by Paessler, is a powerful and easy to use network monitoring tool capable of a wide variety of functions from network mapping to help-desk ticketing. The current version of Zabbix at the time this was written at is 4.2, and PRTG’s version is 19. This article will be comparing the two SNMP monitoring applications: PRTG Network Monitor vs Zabbix. ![]()
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