Likelihood to Recommend Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights is a powerful network monitoring software. It may assist you in more effectively monitoring your network. With the program's assistance, we can detect a wide range of network flaws and irregularities. Furthermore, it eliminates an interruption in the services we offer our consumers while also allowing us to reduce our high rates. Technicians no longer need to utilize CLI to copy and paste hundreds of coding lines. If you want a powerful programmable management program for your next-generation data centre, this is the program for you.
Read full review This tool was integrated with Control-M, so whenever we receive any job failure, long-running job, job not started yet, etc, we receive an alert against it. This tool is also integrated with Maximo where we receive the incidents as well for it. Alert's color was as per the criticality of the job and that makes it very easy for an associate to act on it to resolve. We have the SLAs for the jobs as per the urgency of the jobs.
Read full review Pros It is a flexible tool that helps streamline and facilitate the development of new services. Ideal for automating tasks such as network modification, configuration, and removal, which provides great time savings. Ensures services without interruption and without difficult scheduling. It has a simple user interface and excellent support, made up of several providers. It facilitates the administration of managed services. Read full review This is one of the best monitoring tools. Very simple to user. Color code makes it very simple as per severity. We receive the heartbeat alert every hour that shows the system is running up and fine. We have black, red, yellow, and orange color alerts that show the critical, urgent, major, and minor incidents. Read full review Cons With the latest version release of Cisco Nexus Dashboard to version 3.0.1 I can say that most of the features have already improved but one of the wishlists that I want for ND is the possibility of extracting lists of Anomaly. Include older versions of Firmware in the list of choices when doing the firmware upgrade analysis, currently only the recommended is in the list of choices. If possible, include all the prechecks in the Firmware pre-upgrade analysis same in the script provided by Cisco. Read full review Sometimes color differences of the incidents as per the criticality . We don't receive the heartbeat alerts sometimes. If the tool is down and we don't receive the alerts on the console we wait for the heartbeat alert and it makes some extra delay in resolving things. Read full review Usability For the end user, it is relatively easy to use. However, some training and practice is a must because the NSO is not as straightforward as the traditional router CLI. For the administrator, Cisco Network Service Orchestrator (NSO) is just like another program running on the Linux system--there is no big difference.
Read full review Performance Great and effective automation functionalities and the tools on network security management are the best and easy data reports building. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller feature for the network monitoring and easy management of various services and even offers the best analytics and also powerful integration tools for easy data migration.
Read full review Alternatives Considered It's an upgrade from DCNM and worth looking into. We're trying to solve the issue of Creating and maintaining VLAN fabrics. Speed and ease of use are much better than other options. The app is great; the functionality is solid. Though It can have an improved UI, and user navigation could be simpler. It helps track your data and pipelines; you can set it up in different ways to monitor different flows about where its data is. It has in-built integration with Splunk, which is what was helpful.
Read full review This is one of the essential tools for monitoring. This tool was integrated with Maximo and Control-M in my organization. So whenever any job failed in Control-M, we receive an alert against it in the IBM Netcool/OMNIbus. We receive the alerts in different colors as per the criticality. Black for critical ones(Sev1), red for urgent (Sev2), yellow for major(Sev3), and orange for minor(Sev4). So it makes an easy to operate and act on the alerts as per the severity. This tool is very user-friendly and easy to use. No additional training is required for the tool to operate, just a simple KT is enough.
Read full review Scalability The platform is very well done, and to date, I have had no complaints about the implementation of the platform and no security issues or vulnerabilities. Cisco in all its product releases new versions to resolve security issues or bugs that appear on the platform, this is a big plus.
Read full review Return on Investment From the experience of use, I can affirm that the tool improves the user experience since it reduced the time in the administration of the infrastructure, the prediction of events, as well as the suggestions for solving the problems. all the aforementioned has been simplified thanks to the tool, in turn, it helps us to maintain the network in high availability. The impact has been very positive due to the simplification of the administration, which in turn reduces the detection times, leading to a reduction in costs. Read full review Color feature of the alerts as per the criticality is the amazing feature. Heartbeat alert is also an unique feature. No additional training is required to use this tool. just a simple KT is enough. Read full review ScreenShots