PRICE 500 sensors, 1yr maintenance, £885 exc VAT from paessler.com
There’s one excellent reason to go with Paessler’s PRTG Network Monitor 15: it has no hidden costs. Switches, routers, Windows servers, workstations, critical apps, VMware, Hyper-V – they’re all included in the price.
In addition, licensing is based purely on sensor count, so you only pay for what you want to monitor. That said, we found that sensors can get used up quickly. After running our first discovery on the lab network, PRTG swallowed up more than 300, with our 48-port HP ProCurve Gigabit switch alone using 66. Clearly, these needed culling, but that’s easy enough to do: from the main dashboard, we simply deleted those we didn’t want and returned them to our sensor pool for use elsewhere.
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