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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (formerly Cisco Data Center Network Manager, or DCNM) is a monitoring and management platform. It is optimized for large organizations and enterprises, particularly with data centers.N/A

    ManageEngine OpManager

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AManageEngine's OpManager is network performance monitoring software.

    $95

    per year

    Pricing
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerManageEngine OpManager
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard Edition
    $245
    for 10 devices
    Professional Edition
    $345
    for 10 devices
    Enterprise Edition
    11,545
    for 250 devices
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerManageEngine OpManager
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$245 per installation
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerManageEngine OpManager
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Would buy again
    43 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    44 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerManageEngine OpManager
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller and ManageEngine OpManager
    Feature
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller
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    Ratings
    ManageEngine OpManager
    8.5
    45 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings8.944 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings9.242 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings7.441 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings9.244 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings7.333 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings8.930 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings8.334 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.643 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings7.731 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings9.245 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerManageEngine OpManager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.6
    (45 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (12 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerManageEngine OpManager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Datacenter spine life architecture with 2 pods, you can cover any scenario. It's easy to connect the firewall and to deploy the VXLAN configuration.
    Incentivized
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Manage Engine OpManager is better suited to serve server and network admins at organization to monitor their servers and network devices. It helps us with compliance with the reports available like utilization reports and capacity planning reports. It helps you to keep track of what all process are consuming the resources. It helps you in monitoring what is happening in your switches, routers and firewall
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • It measures the CPU utilization of hosts, the network bandwidth utilization of links, and other aspects of the operation
    • It often sends messages—sometimes called watchdog messages—over the network to each host to verify if it is responsive to requests.
    • Set Up Notifications And Reports.
    • OpManager offers a set of advantages that allow it to adapt to the needs of the company, guaranteeing effective monitoring of the application networks used in our organization.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • I think that there is room for improvement in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller with interface groups
    Incentivized
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Alerts has to be configured correctly otherwise unnecessary bombarding of alerts can cause inconvenience.
    • The server on which ManageEngine OpManager is to be deployed should have higher resources as monitoring a large number of devices may slow down the performance of the system.
    • Configuring the advanced features may require a learning curve.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    Renewing NDFC is a smart strategic move. It transforms manual network management into an automated, policy-driven infrastructure. By leveraging real-time telemetry and centralized control for data center LANs and SANs, your organization gains the scalability, visibility, simplicity, and security needed for complex management operations in modern, high-performance data centers ecc
    Incentivized
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    This product works very well for our organization, and it would be hard to not have a tool like this going forward
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    Usability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The rating I provided is based on the product quality, experience (I have been using OpManager for almost the last 4 years), and relevance of the information/response I generated through Manage Engine OpManager. I have also received good support from OpManager.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    That’s a great automation suits and easy to use
    Incentivized
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    At first, we were not able to add our Avaya switches to the configuration backup module, our partner tried to help, but they did not find the solution, we had one remote session with tech support of ME and they solve the problem.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller is much more efficient and programmable; EPN is like template-ready software without automation. Instead, NDFC is very useful during configuration and deployment.
    Incentivized
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    During our competitive analysis, we found ManageEngine OpManager was not expensive compared to other vendors. At the same time, there was no compromise on the features such as customized reporting or configuring alerts per our clientele's unique requirements. These are our client words "Other vendors ask us to pay more $$$ for enabling additional email alerts".
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    Security has been a great paramount from day one
    Incentivized
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Time on configuration.
    • Setup
    Incentivized
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • I don't know if you can calculate ROI with a monitoring solution, there are more factors to calculate.
    • We found a really big problem with a network switch (faulty transceiver) in a trunk configuration with OPManager. this caused us serial troubles with the overall network stability.
    • We are loosing around € 3.000 to 5.000 per hour if our network is not working so this was a great help to fix this issue
    • Our label printers are really important to monitoring in our warehouse system, this makes OPManager a great solution for that
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    ManageEngine OpManager Screenshots

    Screenshot of OpManager's DashboardScreenshot of OpManager's realtime graphsScreenshot of a device snapshot page in OpManagerScreenshot of Alarms in OpManager