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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LiveAction

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.N/A

    SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Network Automation Manager is designed to scale to environments of all sizes while providing comprehensive performance, traffic, WAN, and switch port monitoring, automated change and configuration, and IP address management in a single, unified software solution. Key differentiators: Customizable, single-pane-of-glass network monitoring software Topology- and dependency-aware intelligent alerts Real-time config change…N/A
    Pricing
    LiveActionSolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    LiveActionSolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsSolarWinds professional support is included to help customers on active maintenance 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We can help you get back up and running when issues occur to keep your systems meeting your needs. Ask your account manager for more information about SolarWinds Premier Support offerings.
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    Features
    LiveActionSolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of LiveAction and SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    Feature
    LiveAction
    6.9
    2 Ratings
    14% below category average
    SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    -
    Ratings
    Automated network device discovery7.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring7.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network capacity planning6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis7.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network mapping6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    LiveActionSolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LiveActionSolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BlueCat
    From a packet tracing standpoint, it was easy to setup and analyze an issue we were having with eigrp errors between 2 data centers. Took a few minutes to stand up on both sides and compare the traffic to determine hellos weren't being sent. On the other spectrum, had it had the analytics of such products as Extrahop, it could have recognized and alerted us of an internal DNS attack we had.
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    SolarWinds
    Well Suited Areas - 1. Network Fault and Performance Monitoring 2. Network Devices Configuration Backup and Configuration Push 3. Netflow Analysis 4. Call Quality Monitoring for Cisco and Avaya 5. Users Ports Management 6. DSN/DHCP Monitoring 7. Alerting and Integration Not Well Suited - 1. Predictive Intelligence based Alerting or data analysis 2. REST API Based Monitoring. 3. SD-WAN Monitoring
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    Pros
    BlueCat
    • Network QOS Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network L2/L3 Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network Security Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
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    SolarWinds
    • Fault and Performance Monitoring
    • Devices Configuration Backup
    • IP Address Management
    • Voice Infrastructure Monitoring
    • Users Ports monitoring
    • Netflow Traffic Utilization
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    Cons
    BlueCat
    • I use it primarily as a monitoring tool from a security standpoint, so one complaint is that the filter creation process takes a little time to learn.
    • In the digital days of printing less, I do still need to print network diagrams for compliance documentation and some of the larger network diagrams documents do not print easily.
    • I wish the network connection lines were easier to see. They are typically very light and you have to drill down to see them more clearly.
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    SolarWinds
    • Support for more call infra provider vendors
    • Cloud Network Monitoring
    • Event Management
    • Predictive Intelligence using AIOps and ML
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    Support Rating
    BlueCat
    Can't really rate this, we never had to call support. The product wasn't complicated to setup and learn. We have a high level of network knowledge so the product was self-explanatory.
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    SolarWinds
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    Alternatives Considered
    BlueCat
    There is not any other product that does exactly what LiveAction does. Some come about halfway close, like scrutinizer by Plixer. However, there is a gap with that product as it doesn't give proper quality of service recommendations, or to update l2/l3 configs to head off problems. Plixer's scrutinizer product costs about the same. It was a no-brainer to pick LiveAction.
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    SolarWinds
    Well Solarwinds is placed much ahead of these products because of the following reasons - One single tool which can perform Fault, Performance Monitoring, Network Bandwidth Utilization, Devices configuration backup, IP Address Management, NetPath, Voice Infra Monitoring, Traps and Syslog Logging, Alerting's, Users Ports Monitoring, Rpeorting etc and hence this make Solarwinds a complete solutions. Whereas other products Like Microfocus requires multiple modules and installation is not easy. LogicMonitor on the other side is well competing (Specially SD-WAN Monitoring) with Solarwinds but it still lacks Devices Configuration Push feature, IP Address Management, NetPath, Users Port Monitoring etc.
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    Return on Investment
    BlueCat
    • Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
    • Great reporting features for executives.
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    SolarWinds
    • Our Network Health has improved with Proactive Monitoring
    • Cost reduction on additional products like PowerBI for Reporting
    • Service Now Integration was easy enough and hence less efforts and cost
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