Cisco DNA Center vs SolarWinds NPM

• Ease of automation and configuration templates make the future you very glad you did it!
• The PnP for switches that allow to boot up and contact the network with a pre-configuration is so amazing. Makes life easy!
• Integrates well with our ISE platform, they have really made it well worth the cost to have everything with the name CISCO on your equipment. All of their devices work so well with this software.

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• The UI is dashing, user-friendly, yet powerful enough to do almost all the administrative tasks with the click of a button.
• The deployment and configuration is made simple thanks to the step-by-step guiding wizards.
• Reporting and KPI have the flexibility to run both simple and complex queries to get the intended output.
• Sonar discovery is an easy and efficient method for on-boarding devices.
• Dashboards and maps efficiently exhibit the entire topology and metrics.

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• En el data Center, integrando los equipos que se encuentra en el corazon de la red y previniendo que esten actualizados // For Data Centers, integrating equipment that is the core of a network, and preventing them from being updated
• En las diferentes areas del campus para poder monitorizar el funcionamiento de los dispositivos // Improving remote monitoring of devices
• En la identificacion de problemas de seguridad de los dispositivos de red // Improving identification of network security issues

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• Configuring thresholds for your alerts can be a little cumbersome.
• Getting additional details onto the alerts is not as easy as it could be.
• You need to have two servers to run SolarWinds NPM, one for the service and a separate one for the database.

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• Efficient time spent elsewhere. I can spend my time troubleshooting other portions of the network instead of housekeeping current gear.
• Assistance with inventory; it keeps an inventory of all the devices you add to it, so it can serve as an inventory of equipment if that's what you'd like from it.
• Visibility; we can see more of the status of our gear, if it's unreachable, or if things are misbehaving the dashboard shows that there are irregularities.

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• SolarWinds vast array of solutions allows us to consolidate the total number of monitoring solutions, network management tools and performance monitoring tools into a single solution saving us money.
• By combining what were once many different vendor solutions for different usages into a single ecosystem we are able to quickly respond and determine the cause of network-related events.
• With a single ecosystem for network management and reporting, we are able to drastically reduce our overhead and standardize our alerting and monitoring solutions. Reducing white noise alerts and improving response time.

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