Cisco Intersight vs IBM Tivoli NetCool Configuration Manager

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Intersight is very well suited for IT engineers, system administrators, and IT personnel that just wants to have a quick, easy use, interface (be it web-based or application-based) to monitor, manage and maintain their Cisco Infrastructure. This product provides just that, and looking at the product road map it can definitely offer more which we are really excited about!

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Ericson Aragoza

Unified Communications Engineer

VisionsConnectedTelecommunications, 501-1000 employees

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This is the best tool for monitoring purpose. We can associate Control-M with this tool(Netcool) for monitoring any activity on Control-M ( Like the jobs which got failed, the long running jobs, jobs that are not started yet, the node down alerts etc.)We can also link it with the drives to get the warning alerts on drive memory status. We receive a critical alert whenever C drive is more than 90% used. Likewise in other drives also.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

Intersight can consolidate Infra management on a single dashboard such as UCS Server, Hyperflex, Fabric Interconnect, UCSM.
Device policy and configuration can be deployed from Intersight.
Firmware and software upgrade for all devices can be done from Intersight.
No impact to DC production if Intersight connection is interrupted.
Apps workload data is not passed through Intersight, only the control plane.
TAC can be opened via Intersight.

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Budi Ezeddin

Solution Architect

Sisindokom LintasbuanaInformation Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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This is one of the essential monitoring tool i have ever used before.
The best feature is its color code as per the priority. Black color alert - Extremely critical(P1), Red color alert- Critical(P2), Yellow color alerts- Major alerts(P3), Orange Color alert- Minor alerts(P4)
We receive a heart beat alert every hour to know whether the tool is working fine or not. This is the best function of this tool.
There is no additional training is required to use this tool as its coloring feature of the alerts make it more easy for the users.
The best user friendly tool.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

The cost is a little high per trackable asset
Mobile application is missing some features
Automatic TAC case creation doesn't always work as advertised

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Mark McCully

Senior Network Administrator

University HealthSystem ConsortiumHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Since it is associated with the Control-M,there is a very small delay in throwing an alert on the Netcool console.
I have never faced any as such issue in this tool where there is any area of improvement needed.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 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

Starting Price

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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

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

Cisco Intersight 9.0

Based on 2 answers

We use it every single day and love the ease of it and the integration of all our servers

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Benjamin Bubbers

Systems Engineer

Schleswig-Holstein Netz AGOil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

Cisco Intersight 9.1

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everything works well and is really useful

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Benjamin Bubbers

Systems Engineer

Schleswig-Holstein Netz AGOil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco Intersight 7.7

Based on 12 answers

I have had servers TAC cases open for issues with Cisco Intersight. Some have yet to be resolved. One case that is still open is where the HCL status ( Hardware Compatibility List ) shows not validated when It should be. We have several servers that have the exact same hardware, OS, and the same firmware. One server will show the HCL is not validated but all others will

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Cisco Intersight makes device management easy by automatically detecting the parameters that need to be monitored, so you can save time registering each device. In addition, thanks to its mobile application, you can know most of the time if an incident occurs due to the active alerting of the application.

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Oscar Sanchez

IT Engineer

Best Day Travel GroupLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 501-1000 employees

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We have used the other monitoring tool as well like the monitoring tool associated with the Control-M itself but it not even close to the Netcool's features. In Control-M monitoring console we receive the only alerts which is associated to the unusual activity on the Control-M(Like job failure, long running job, jobs which are not started on its schedule time etc.) but in Netcool console we have diverse range of monitoring like drives notification, unusual activity on Control-M etc

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

As a Cisco partner and vendor, it allows us to monitor and give proactive support to our customers in a way that was impossible before.
Also gives proactive and predictive support from cisco since it allows for automatic case creation with cisco in case that a problem is detected in the infrastructure.

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Daniel Aramayo

Ingeniero de Soporte e Implementacion

Pracso ServicesInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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This tool makes the work more easy and transparent. We can monitor the whole by this tool.
This tool has best features like color coding as per the severity of the alert like P1, P2,P3 having the different color code.
Since, this tool is actually based on the color coding, it requires no additional training for the new users.
Its heart beat alert notification in every hour makes it more user friendly. This alert we receive every hour to know whether the tool is working fine or not.
A very user friendly and an essential monitoring tool.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cisco Intersight vs IBM Tivoli NetCool Configuration Manager