Cisco DNA Analytics and Assurance vs SolarWinds ipMonitor

Likelihood to Recommend

So not everyone is in need of a smart AI checking their network metrics looking for issues before they happen or finding and alerting on problems that the network staff may not have noticed, but if you have the budget for it, it could be a huge time saver for your whole department.

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Manager in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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SolarWinds ipMonitor is well suited in situation where customer do not wants to hold the responsibility of underlying monitoring infrastructure management such as Servers, Database, website and their high availability. And of course when you need Network, Servers, Services fault and performance monitoring. When you have specialized network monitoring requirement such as Configuration backup, netflow traffic analysis then this is not the right tool.

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Rekha Yadav

Development Team Lead

AccentureComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco DNA Analytics and Assurance

SolarWinds ipMonitor

Automated network device discovery

Network monitoring

Alerts

Network mapping

Customizable reports

Pros

Easy-to-use interface
Gives broad, top-level details of the network
Allows you to easily drill down to exactly the problem

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Douglas Demartino

Database Administrator

City of KissimmeeGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees

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ipMonitor is well suited to use SNMP sources to monitor up states and usage such as network interfaces
ipMonitor does a great job of measuring bandwidth usage and delivering a long term 'picture' of usage
ipMonitor has an exceptional interface that is easy to use and simple to navigate

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Mike Maner

Network Systems Engineer

Whitesell GroupMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

May require an implementer to get this set up and running.
For a software based service that you can run on your own VM's, price is still very high.
The first setup can be a bear and you will need much help from TAC.

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Manager in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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The user interface is quite outdated
Scans sometimes take a very long time
It has a bit too many configuration options

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Dylan Eikelenboom

Security Officer

IXON CloudInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.2

Based on 1 answer

I have very few pieces of software, that are specific to IT and IT services, that just work. Honestly, I don't need the support as it never breaks, but I believe in rewarding vendors that make valuable products

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Mike Maner

Network Systems Engineer

Whitesell GroupMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

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SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.0

Based on 6 answers

Although SolarWinds ipMonitor is great tool to start the SaaS based monitoring journey with SolarWinds products but it still requires a lot of enhancement and its user base which is primarily using on-premises products of SolarWinds needs to be shifted on SaaS based platform strategically and need to motivate. ipMonitor needs to be interated with infra monitoring products such as On-Premises NAM bundle, SAM, DPA etc

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Nikhil Kumar Sharma

Associate Consultant

HCL TechnologiesInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

No score

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SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.7

Based on 8 answers

Overall experience with SolarWinds support team is good. We never faced any delays or issues with the support team, they are knowledgeable or at least documentation is available to them I guess . Direct phone support is also nice and better than opening a support ticket in the system.Sometimes logs analysis take a lot of time and it seems support team is buying some time to fix the issue or to do more research on the issues but that is fine.

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Rekha Yadav

Development Team Lead

AccentureComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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We have run Zabbix in the past and while it is a great and very flexible tool (much more than SolarWinds), it is also an Open Source tool that depends heavily on the community. When it comes to more complex environments and global implementations with business critical applications, we could not rely on the community to support us.SolarWinds is a leader on monitoring industry and has a great support.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Admins have saved time diagnosing issues
IT is able to get ahead of problems before they occur
Money saved on separate monitoring products that may not work as well

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Douglas Demartino

Database Administrator

City of KissimmeeGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees

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We currently use an outside service to monitor critical network nodes. We will do away with that service shortly.
We no longer have to wait to hear from our users if there is a network device down. We will be proactively alerted and we can begin to remediate immediately helping to limit downtime.
After initial setup and some tweaking, it requires little to no time to maintain.

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Paul Cheng

IT Manager

Handel ArchitectsArchitecture & Planning, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Cisco DNA Analytics and Assurance Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

SolarWinds ipMonitor Editions & Modules

Edition

ipMonitor -2500 Monitors	$5770¹
ipMonitor - 1000 Monitors	$2620¹
ipMonitor - 500 Monitors	$1570¹

installation

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Rating Summary

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SolarWinds ipMonitor

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Cisco DNA Analytics and Assurance vs SolarWinds ipMonitor