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NetBrain vs Pulseway

NetBrain
9 Ratings
Pulseway
24 Ratings

NetBrain

9 Ratings
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Score 6.8 out of 100

Based on 9 reviews and ratings

Pulseway

24 Ratings
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Score 9 out of 100

Based on 24 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

NetBrain

In Cisco environments (especially IOS and IOS-XE) NetBrain looks nearly perfect. The network is loaded with heaps of information you would never document if you would have to do it manually. The information is there but you can decide what is visible at first glance and for what information you want to zoom in a bit more on the map for.There are still some problems with the automatic documentation and path discovery with virtual L2 firewalls.Although the implementation of the documentation of Cisco ACI is just in the beginning but, if finished, it's probably a great tool to have an end-to-end view of paths from the legacy network into SDN.

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Christoph Neulinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pulseway

Pulseway works well in smaller, uncomplicated environments that need basic monitoring with management tools that they can use from a mobile device. It starts to fall apart if you have many servers meshed with each other, where it is useful to see how each machine connects to the others and how alerts from one machine are corresponding to alerts on another. There are more powerful monitoring tools where that is more appropriate.

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Pros

NetBrain

  • It automatically updates your network documentation.
  • You can search for devices even if they are no longer operational (by a lot of attributes).
  • It can simplify your troubleshooting by showing you the L2/L3 path a packet would take.
  • It can automate and document the steps of troubleshooting tasks to get more information from one level of support to the next.
  • The support team of NetBrain is very fast and very helpful.
  • Heaps of information in the maps.

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Christoph Neulinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Christoph Neulinger
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Pulseway

  • Running windows updates: Pulseway really helps us keep our end-user devices up to date, without the need to handle each device individually.
  • Sending notifications on our servers really helps with taking care of issues before they cause downtime.
  • Pulseway's remote desktop client works very well, even over slower internet connections.

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Nathan Weber | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nathan Weber
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Cons

NetBrain

  • Not all devices are integrated with the same quality.
  • Not all steps are self-explaining.
  • The updates were difficult (but thanks to the help of support no real problem).

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Christoph Neulinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pulseway

  • I would like to be able to connect to the managed system's console if the app's capabilities still don't meet my needs.
  • I'd like for it to be easier to configure. Some operating systems, Linux for example, are not that easy to setup for disk space management. Windows and Mac are very easy to setup for it.
  • I'd like to be able to configure process restarts in case of a failure.

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Kenneth Hess | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered

NetBrain

We used NetViz and Microsoft Visio before.NetViz was a great tool at its time but it's not the best solution anymore and Microsoft Visio is good in a lot of things but more of a Swiss Army knife than a network documentation tool.We had a look at NetTerrain which looked like a good documentation tool and would have given us the advantage of importing our old NetViz documentation.The main disadvantage with all of these tools compared to NetBrain is that the documentation needs to be done manually.

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Christoph Neulinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Christoph Neulinger
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Pulseway

Pulseway has the most features, the best looking app with the best design and better usability than any others we evaluated. We liked the uniformity of the app design across all platforms (Windows, Android, Apple) and the notifications displayed on each platform. The price was a major contributor to our selection of Pulseway compared to the competition.

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Brian Heersink | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

NetBrain

  • Network automation is up to date.
  • Quicker failure discovery and resolving due to the path discovery.
  • Less time spent on documentation.
  • Much more details in the documentation.

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Christoph Neulinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Christoph Neulinger
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Pulseway

  • Saves me a couple hours of driving on a regular basis
  • Easy to deploy MS patches after hours
  • Integration with Kaspersky is great - but we are moving away from Kaspersky for the same reasons the US government has

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Phillip Hare | TrustRadius Reviewer
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NetBrain

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Pricing Details

NetBrain

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

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Pulseway

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

Pulseway Editions & Modules

Edition
Professional1.341
Enterprise1.741
  1. per endpoint
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