Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution is discontinued. Current users are encouraged to explore Cisco Catalyst Center as a modern solution.
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SolarWinds NPM
Score 8.3 out of 10
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SolarWinds NPM is a monitoring and performance management platform. It provides performance troubleshooting support, auto network discovery, customizable thresholds, and can be rapidly deployed.
We admire for some main reasons, Cisco's Prime LAN Management Solution is our best choice — It provides detailed information about network device mapping. Configuration management is critical when using wireless technology. Solarwinds and Micro Focus, while powerful, lack …
Although there are many powerful tools available in the market such as Solarwinds, Micro Focus, CA Spectrum with advanced configuration options and customization options available still Cisco Prime [LAN Management Solution] is the preferred tool for following reasons - 1. If you …
There are various 3rd party tools available in the market which not only supports monitoring of cisco devices but also supports non-cisco devices, even with these capabilities in these 3rd party tools Cisco Prime has maintained a uniqueness in its products being the native tool …
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Chose Cisco Prime LAN Management (discontinued)
Cisco has more features and integrated with our existing Cisco wireless infrastructure seamlessly.
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is dedicated to network devices so it's really efficient, Zabbix or PRTG are trying to do too many things and it's very complicated to achieve same things as with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor.
SolarWinds was much more flexible than other solutions, including Cisco Prime and that's why we ended up converting most of our environmental monitoring over to SolarWinds NPM. We still use Cisco Prime for wireless monitoring for the time being but may eventually transition …
SolarWinds is so easy to set up and to use. The alerting is better. It is a much cheaper product. I used Cisco Prime, and still do for wireless, for years but Cisco's Licensing is awful. We had it for all of our Cisco devices and we decided to drop it.
Of all the network monitoring solutions out there, SolarWinds Network Performance monitor is easily the most complete and the easiest to convince management on. For our team, the ability to install on premises was a firm requirement. Follow that up with everyone's familiarity …
We previously migrated from Nagios, which we were using primarily as a network monitoring solution, and Cisco Prime (running in parallel for more detailed information from our Cisco switches). We ended up selecting NPM as a replacement solution due to the ease of …
We run SolarWinds NPM, Cisco Prime and VMWare vRealize Ops Manager for monitoring solutions. NPM and Cisco Prime are the only ones that monitor our network infrastructure. Cisco Prime has multiple configs whereas SolarWinds does not. Prime does not scale as well as SolarWinds …
Most have been SolarWinds products for either monitoring and management. As I mentioned, the top usage now is for alerting on up/down. Performance monitoring is mostly on an ad-hoc basis.