Cisco Intersight vs IBM Tivoli NetCool Configuration Manager

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Intersight is very well suited for doing firmware upgrades across all of your cisco hardware. So far we have had no problems pushing out new firmware. It's also well suited for hardware management. Cisco TAC has the ability to pull logs for the IMC for themselves, which saves you from having to pull the logs yourself and then uploading them to the case. It may or may not be appropriate for upgrading operating systems. I have not been able to test it.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 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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Pros

Accessible from anywhere online.
Cisco is always adding new functionality.
Easy to learn and use on a daily basis.

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Professional in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 1001-5000 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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Cons

Mobile app has some minor display issues.
Most exciting features are still being rolled out.

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Wouter Hindriks

Technical Team Lead Network & Security

Missing Piece BVInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 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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Likelihood to Renew

Cisco Intersight 8.2

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Basic version is free, good functionality now and many interesting things on the roadmap.

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Wouter Hindriks

Technical Team Lead Network & Security

Missing Piece BVInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco Intersight 8.2

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Because Cisco is actively developing Cisco Intersight.
Because Cisco listens to users of Cisco Intersight and actively develops suggestions and fix issues found.

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Joacim Wicander

Senior Data Center Engineer

Conscia Sweden ABInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We use the Dell OpenManage product previously when we were using Dell servers. Cisco Intersight has much more capabilities than Dell OpenManage had in the past. I haven't used any other product lately which would allow me to compare the features. We use What's up gold for up/down monitoring but It doesn't have the firmware update features.

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Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 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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Return on Investment

Basic Intersight access is free to all Cisco customers.
You can decide what level of functionality fits your needs and budget.

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Airlines/Aviation Company, 1001-5000 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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Pricing Details

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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

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