Cisco Intersight vs SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools

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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Setting up device backup schedules for individual locations is quick and easy. The application is very straightforward and basic. The application covers 90% of our needs. Some devices that require configuration and file backups utilizing ftp or other methods are configured using a different set of tools. Backups can be stored in configured destination folders for easy review.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Public Relations & Communications 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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Network device backups.
Identify configuration changes from prior backup.
Automated email notifications.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Public Relations & Communications 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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Limited scripting capability.
Limited reporting/management summarization.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Public Relations & Communications 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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Cisco Intersight Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$852 Per Instance

SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools Editions & Modules

Edition

One Time Price	$852¹

Per Instance

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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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No score

No answers yet

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Usability

Cisco Intersight 9.1

Based on 1 answer

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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SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools 8.0

Based on 1 answer

CatTools is simple to set up and administer. Anyone who can install a Windows application can quickly set up an automated backup of one or more devices. It does what it was designed to do.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Public Relations & Communications Company, 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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SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools 10.0

Based on 1 answer

The software is easy enough to set up and configure that even after using the product for years, we never had to contact support. We used some open source products before utilizing CatTools and could have used a speed dial to try and figure out the intricacies of the products.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Public Relations & Communications Company, 1001-5000 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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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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Allows InfoSec to review all changes without granting access to actual devices.
Allows review of "what changed?" if required for particular sites.
Alerts confirm what devices have been modified every day.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Public Relations & Communications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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