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For any customer that has a complex network environment spanning globally, skybox helps manage firewall policy compliance for many vendors quite easy. It has a variety of security and network vendors that it is compatible with in its database.
If your IT team isn't proficient in automation and scripting, Solarwinds NCM can fill that gap (assuming your company's security team signs off on approving SW in your environment given the hack.) Basic device configuration, pushing mass changes reliably and backups are NCM's strong suites. If you have a complex scenario where if/then cases are needed, NCM is a bit lack luster. Auto discovery isn't as easy either as certain parameters need to be met for that feature to work 100% of the time Incentivized
Skybox manages compliance for firewalls better than we have seen with other tools.Skybox integrates into standard change management tools so change control can flow through Skybox and assist with all decisions to implement a change.The Skybox network map is more detailed than other management tools showing us paths other tools didn't find.Incentivized
Integrates with Network Performance Management for Alerting and Reporting.NetPath and detects issues due to Configuration Change.Keeps a record of which user made the change.Which devices are not being backed up, devices where backups are failing, dashboard and alerting available.Incentivized
User experience. On the first approach, it's not the simplest tool that I have ever used.Web-based console. In my honest opinion it's very important [to have] this type of functionality to extend the use of Skybox.Too many updates of the product.Incentivized
For our use case, it does everything great and some of the features we underutilize but I would like to be able to set a configuration baseline when initially adding a node instead of after the configuration is pulled but it's not a particularly big deal to let it pull the configuration then set it as the baseline.Incentivized
Medium complexity to set up in the beginning if using any non-standard devices or configurations, else fairly easy (e.g. Cisco Nexus or IOS-based devices). Reports are fairly straightforward to set up. Updates to the platform are fairly straightforward and don't take a major effort. Easy to add or remove devices.Incentivized
It is user friendly and quite easy to use. It centralizes all info in one portal and generates good reports to help you visualize and assess your change management decision
The user interface is lacking. It is difficult to navigate at times and things can be done multiple ways. Quite often I am confused by how their notification structure works. It is not very intuitive. They do offer a free Academy. They also offer a community of other technical folks. I have enjoyed both.Incentivized
The support team needs to be improved especially in their response and awareness about recent bugs in their solution. For example, sometimes they are not aware about how to integrate specific vendors like Microsoft Azure and they still don't have answers to it until now.
To be fair, I have not had to involve Support in a number of years, but when I did, I was greeted with enthusiastic engineers who wanted to understand and solve the issue. It was a fairly complex scenario and I have discovered in my most recent implementation that engineering included that option as a standard now.Incentivized
Solarwinds has actually produced new training since I last used it that is available on their site at any time. Their previous training was more than enough to get us started but now there is significantly more content. Since I'm comfortable with the Orion platform and the products we use I haven't checked the new training out yet but we have new staff go through portions of that training and they always come away with an understanding of the platform and ready to use it Incentivized
it was a fairly easy implementation and everything was pretty straightforward. only challenge we had was getting all the snmp communities updated on the networking equipment Incentivized
CloudGuard Dome9 does not have a suite for an on-premise datacenter.Incentivized
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a great tool and matches much of the functionality of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. Nothing about Ansible will likely be overwhelming to an engineer with a little time to spare, but that spare time combined with SolarWinds already being our monitoring tool made the decision easy. Time is at a premium in small teams and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is very easy to use right out of the box without all the tweaking required by powerful command line driven tools like Ansible.Incentivized
Overall ROI is good as this product is an augmentation for us but we already have a mature security program with an experienced security team so the ROI is high.Incentivized
The time savings from automatic daily backups is significantThe compare configuration tool is super helpful at spotting errors when small changes occur that are hard to detect otherwise.The compliance check tool saves countless hours going through configurations for errors.Incentivized