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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• Out of the Monitoring of almost all Network Devices.
• Build custom pollers to monitor which is not supported out of the box.
• Further you can alert on these custom metrics and Out of the box metrics.
• It provides you great dashboards, Reports features.
• You can integrate it with any MoM layer tools either using its API or sending out traps.
• Out of the box Integration with Service Now ITSM Tool.

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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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• The impact is largely on the positive side as ROI figures are on the rise.
• The licensing model is appropriately designed to meet every need. We have an XLS license and with the addition of an APE license, we can easily extend our scope.
• SolarWinds has helped in the creation of business use cases for network equipment or bandwidth investments. With capacity planning, we can accurately size our Infra.

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