Hi All,

I have used network monitoring tools for ~10 years now, starting with iHiji. We are using Domotz now. Due to substantial $$ increases with Domotz (site pricing has gone from $16 to $35 in less than two years!!), we're open to options and wanted to see what others have found useful.

iHiji was still the most integrated with Crestron until it was purchased by C4. Domotz has many of the best features that it had and does a better job in many ways, though it really lacks in Crestron integration.

OVRC has never gone beyond really nice toy IMO, but it is free, so you get what you pay for...

 

Ultimately I'm looking for a refined dashboard with alerts, integration within the app, ex: auto-relate POE ports with devices, provide remote control over those ports and also for PDU outlets for rebooting, etc and ultimately bi-directional integration with Crestron like we had with iHiji so processors and send alerts to the dashboard and info can come back to trigger things in the program...

 

Any other systems out there that people are happy with??

 

TIA!

Agreed, Domotz was a fantastic tool for the original cost.... I've been using ubiquiti network since Luxul development got basically abandoned by LeGrand, so we found it very easy to start cancelling Domotz licenses with systems that have Ubiquiti DMs in place. 

 

 

 

There is still a big lack of features like custom notifications but it's the best alternate I'm aware of. 

Crestron has partnered with some software developer to provide an MDU property manager dashboard which can monitor all kinds of things with a pretty usable interface... I saw that a couple years ago at cedia, they are listed as one of the partner companies I forget the name offhand... But I was pushing my rep for a concrete answer as to why Crestron has not purchased the company and turned it into an integrator dashboard. It would be absolutely fantastic. I think everybody here should take a look and start screaming about it. I have no doubt that Crestron is absolutely all about Open integration and control of all electronic devices and it would only make sense that they would have their own monitoring platform for companies that build dozens or hundreds or thousands of systems that they need to manage. How would they not benefit from providing a monitoring platform... Which would effectively standardize the quality of the systems that they've got out there and how they're being managed effectively... 

 

If they added a couple of basic network tools to this, forget it, I would be all over it.

 

https://gobodhi.com/

OVRC has it's quirks, but if you put a Pro Hub on-site it usually gets the job done for me.

 

That said, I also usually have remote desktop and/or VPN access to all my sites as well.